Bruce Eckel

Bruce Eckel (born ) is a computer programmer, author, and consultant.

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 or C++ programming languages, respectively, particularly those with little experience of object-oriented programming.

Eckel was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ standard committee.

Views on computing In 2011, Eckel extolled the virtues of the Go programming language as a natural successor to C++:

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) Thinking in C++, Vol. 2: Practical Programming, 2nd Edition, Bruce Eckel and Chuck Allison. Prentice-Hall PTR, 2003. . Available for free download Thinking in Java, 4th Edition, Bruce Eckel. Prentice-Hall PTR, 2006. . "First Steps in Flex", Bruce Eckel and James Ward. MindView, Inc., 2008. . "Atomic Scala", Bruce Eckel and Dianne Marsh. Mindview, LLC, 2013. . "On Java 8", Bruce Eckel, MindView LLC, 2017. . "Atomic Kotlin", Bruce Eckel & Svetlana Isakova, MindView LLC, 2021. .