Alexander Stepanov

::"This article is about the key person behind the C++ Standard Template Library. For other notable people named Stepanov, see Stepanov (disambiguation)."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++ [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 = ACM HOPL-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.]