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Bjarne

BYAR-neh

/ˈbjɑːrnɛ/

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bjarne

Name meaning and origin

Origin
Old Norse/Danish (Denmark/Norway)
Meaning
Bear; warrior
Gender
male

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Name of Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist who created the C++ programming language

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