# Bjarne Stroustrup on Bell Labs and the Origins of C++

DevFeed: [Bjarne Stroustrup on Bell Labs and the Origins of C++](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/creator-of-c-bell-labs-negative-overhead-abstraction-mistakes-bjarne-stroustrup-18085.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.developing.dev/p/creator-of-c-bell-labs-negative-overhead>)

Author: Ryan Peterman

Published: 2026-05-18T10:02:48Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [The Developing Dev](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/the-developing-dev.md>)

Topics: [C++](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c-plus-plus.md>), [Programming language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming-language.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Unix](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/unix.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [c-plus-plus](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c-plus-plus.md>), [language](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/language.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>)

## AI overview

A podcast interview with Bjarne Stroustrup covers his work at Bell Labs and the origins of C++. He explains that C++ combined C's low-level hardware access with Simula's class concept and higher-level programming features for systems programming.

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