Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementor of C++ and the author of The C++ Programming Language (first edition 1985, second edition 1991, third edition 1997), The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, and The Design and Evolution of C++. A graduate or the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Cambridge University, England, Dr. Stroustrup is currently the head of AT&T Labs' Large-scale Programming Research Department and an AT&T Bell Labratories Fellow.