Did Bjarne Stroustrup create the terms constructor/destructor when talking about objects?

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Published on 2013-10-23T21:40:07Z Indexed on 2013/10/23 22:04 UTC
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I was watching this keynote and Bjarne Stroustrup (Creator of C++) claims that he hadn't yet invented the words constructor and destructor yet when he was giving an example of RAII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBLXBJr0HU

I know the concept of construction and destruction has been around a lot longer (even in C, a function that allocates and returns a struct and then a function that frees it etc.), but was Bjarne really the first to invent the terms?

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