- Alexander Stepanov
::"This article is about the key person behind the
C++ Standard Template Library . For other notable people named Stepanov, seeStepanov (disambiguation)."Alexander Stepanov (bornNovember 16 ,1950 inMoscow ) is the key person behind theC++ Standard Template Library , which he started to develop around 1993 while employed atHP Labs . He had earlier been working forBell Labs close to Andrew Koenig and tried to convinceBjarne Stroustrup to introduce something like Ada Generics in C++ [cite paper|first = Bjarne|last = Stroustrup|title=Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006, section 4.1.2|url=http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-almost-final.pdf |version = preprint | publisher = ACMHOPL -III Conference|date = May 2007|format = PDF] . He is currently employed by
Adobe Systems . Stepanov is the father of eight grown children and is a grandfather to five.ee also
* Object-oriented programming criticism
References
External links
* [http://www.stepanovpapers.com/ Collected Papers of Alexander A. Stepanov]
* [http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html An interview of Stepanov, from STLport]
* [http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/drdobbs-interview.html Another interview, from Dr. Dobbs]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpa Range Partition Adapters] A STL-based multi-threaded library, inspired from an article of Alexander Stepanov.
* [http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=830 Coverage of a Stepanov lecture in The Inquirer.]
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