Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Степа́нов; born November 16, 1950, Moscow) is a Russian-American computer programmer, best known as an advocate of generic programming and as the primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library,[1] which he started to develop around 1992 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++.[2] He is credited with the notion of concept.[3][4]
He is the author (with Paul McJones) of Elements of Programming,[5] a book that grew out of a "Foundations of Programming" course[6] that Stepanov taught at Adobe Systems (while employed there). He is also the author (with Daniel E. Rose) of From Mathematics to Generic Programming.[7]
He retired in January 2016 from A9.com.[8]
- ^ Stepanov, Alexander; Lee, Meng (1995-11-14). "The Standard Template Library". HP Laboratories Technical Report 95-11(R.1).
- ^ Stroustrup, Bjarne (2007-06-09). "Evolving a language in and for the real world". Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages. pp. 4-1–4-59. doi:10.1145/1238844.1238848. ISBN 978-1-59593-766-7. S2CID 7518369.
- ^ a bit of background for concepts and C++17—Bjarne Stroustrup, by Bjarne Stroustrup | Feb 26, 2016
- ^ Alex Stepanov, by Bjarne Stroustrup | Jan 21, 2016
- ^ Stepanov, Alexander; McJones, Paul (2009). Elements of Programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0-321-63537-2.
- ^ Stepanov, Alexander (2007). Notes on Programming (PDF).
- ^ Stepanov, Alexander A.; Rose, Daniel E. (2015). From Mathematics to Generic Programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 978-0321942043.
- ^ Alex Retirement, Jan 14, 2016