Alexander Stepanov
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Alexander Stepanov (born November 16, 1950 in Moscow) is the key person behind the C++ Standard Template Library, which he started to develop around 1993 while employed at HP Labs. He had earlier been working for Bell Labs close to Andrew Koenig and tried to convince Bjarne Stroustrup to introduce something like Ada Generics in C++[1]. He is currently employed by Adobe Systems. Stepanov is the father of eight grown children and is a grandfather to four.
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- ^ Stroustrup, Bjarne (May 2007). "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006, section 4.1.2" (PDF). preprint. . ACM HOPL-III Conference
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:
- Collected Papers of Alexander A. Stepanov
- An interview of Stepanov, from STLport
- Another interview, from Dr. Dobbs
- Range Partition Adapters A STL-based multi-threaded library, inspired from an article of Alexander Stepanov.
- Coverage of a Stepanov lecture in The Inquirer.
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