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{{short description|American computer programmer, author and consultant}}
'''Bruce Eckel''' (born {{birth date and age|1957|7|8}}) is a [[computer programmer]], author, and consultant.{{fact|date=August 2023}}

Eckel's best known works are ''Thinking in Java'' and the two-volume series ''Thinking in C++'', aimed at programmers wanting to learn the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] or [[C++]] programming languages, respectively, particularly those with little experience of [[object-oriented programming]].{{fact|date=August 2023}}

Eckel was a founding member of the [[ANSI]]/[[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]] [[ISO/IEC 14882|C++ standard]] committee.{{Citation needed|date=May 2015}}

==Views on computing==
In 2011, Eckel extolled the virtues of the [[Go (programming language)|Go programming language]] as a natural successor to C++:<ref name="gopython2011">{{cite web |url=http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=333589 |title=Calling Go from Python via JSON-RPC |date=2011-08-27 |first=Bruce |last=Eckel |accessdate=2011-08-29 }}</ref>

{{quote|"The complexity of C++ (even more complexity has been added in the new C++), and the resulting impact on productivity, is no longer justified. All the hoops that the C++ programmer had to jump through in order to use a C-compatible language make no sense anymore — they're just a waste of time and effort. Now, Go makes much more sense for the class of problems that C++ was originally intended to solve."|Bruce Eckel (2011)<ref name="gopython2011" />}}

==See also==
*[[ISO/IEC 14882]] - C++ standard

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* ''Computer Interfacing with Pascal & C'', Bruce Eckel. Eisys 1988, {{ISBN|0-89716-211-0}}.
* ''Using C++'', Bruce Eckel. Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1989, {{ISBN|978-0-07-881522-5}}.
* ''C++ Inside & Out'', Bruce Eckel. Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1993, {{ISBN|978-0-07-881809-7}}.
* ''Blackbelt C++: The Masters Collection'', Edited by Bruce Eckel. M&T/Holt 1994, {{ISBN|978-1-55851-334-1}}.
* ''Thinking in C++: Introduction to Standard C++, Volume One (2nd Edition)'', Bruce Eckel. Prentice-Hall PTR 2000,  {{ISBN|978-0-13-979809-2}}. Available for free download <ref name=bookdl>[http://mindviewllc.com mindview LLC. - Books Download Sites]</ref>
* ''Thinking in C++, Vol. 2: Practical Programming, 2nd Edition'', Bruce Eckel and Chuck Allison. Prentice-Hall PTR, 2003.  {{ISBN|0-13-035313-2}}. Available for free download <ref name=bookdl/>
* ''[[Thinking in Java]], 4th Edition'', Bruce Eckel. Prentice-Hall PTR, 2006. {{ISBN|0-13-187248-6}}.
* "First Steps in Flex", Bruce Eckel and James Ward. MindView, Inc., 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-9818725-0-6}}.
* "Atomic Scala", Bruce Eckel and Dianne Marsh. Mindview, LLC, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0-9818725-1-3}}.
* "On Java 8", Bruce Eckel, MindView LLC, 2017. {{ISBN|978-0-9818725-2-0}}.
* "Atomic Kotlin", Bruce Eckel & Svetlana Isakova, MindView LLC, 2021. {{ISBN|978-0-9818725-4-4}}.

==External links==
* [https://www.bruceeckel.com/ Computing Thoughts]- Eckel's blog
* [http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/30139 Interview with Bruce Eckel by Clay Shannon]
* [https://mindviewinc.com/media/ List of other interviews with him]
* [https://www.atomickotlin.com Latest news on upcoming book Atomic Kotlin]
* [https://www.mindviewinc.com/ MindView] - Eckel's company
* {{YouTube|gt5OSmJfQL0|Reinventing Business}} - Eckel on building corporate cultures that increase employee happiness and thus employee productivity, [[O'Reilly Open Source Convention]], 2013

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