Whos Who In Cpp

A group of folks on The C++ Source advisory board would like to put together a "Who's Who in C++" document. BillVenners suggested doing this via a wiki page, and then when it achieves a certain done-ness, turn it into an article for The C++ Source. I think that's a great idea and suggested this page as a start. -- WardCunningham

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ScottMeyers' recent Artima article "The Most Important C++ People... Ever" [http://www.artima.com/cppsource/top_cpp_people.html] might be a good starting point. His five were:

• BjarneStroustrup
• AndrewKoenig
• ScottMeyers - author of EffectiveCeePlusPlus etc.
  • http://www.aristeia.com/
• HerbSutter
  • http://www.gotw.ca/
• AndreiAlexandrescu - author of ModernCeePlusPlusDesign
  • http://www.erdani.org/

Some additional individuals:

• AlexanderStepanov
  • MattAustern worked closely with Stepanov at SGI, and the STL owes a very large debt to him as well. See also Matthew H. Austern, "Generic Programming and the STL: Using and Extending the C++ Standard Template Library". Addison-Wesley, 1999, hardcover, 608 p., ISBN 0-201-30956-4
• BarbaraMoo
• MengLee
  • She co-authored and co-developed with Stepanov the 1995 Hewlett-Packard technical report titled "The StandardTemplateLibrary"
• DavidMusser

The STL is so incredibly essential to (and fused with) modern C++ that I would insist that Stepanov should be one of the top 3, ahead even of Meyers and Alexandrescu. -- DougMerritt

Members of the team that created the C++StandardTemplateLibrary and the definitive book by the same name: Alexander A. Stepanov, Meng Lee, and David R. Musser.

Should RobertMurray be on the list? Also:

• C++ metaobjects and integration with SOM
  • IraForman
• Co-Authors on C++/Com Integration
  • DonBox
  • RichardGrimes
• Explained streams and locales
  • AngelikaLanger
• STLSoft and Author
  • MatthewWilson
• C++ numerics, financial analysis
  • MichaelMarkov,
  • ThomasBecker,
  • ThomasKeffer –

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Names contributed by BjarneStroustrup

[from http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=226&thread=174250]

(Of course, he didn't mention himself. HumilityIsKey)

• AlexanderStepanov
  • The STL.
• AndreiAlexandrescu
  • Author.
• AndrewKoenig
  • Author, C++ project editor, contributor to many language features, manipulators.
• BemanDawes
  • Boost founder, rare user point-of-view in standards committee.
• BruceEckel
  • Early C++ author.
• DavidAbrahams
  • Formulated the exception guarantees, library provider, Boost co-founder, template metaprogramming guru, author.
• DmitriLenkov
  • Founded the ANSI C++ committee.
• DougMcIlroy
  • Bell Labs' most influential "critic" of early C++, languages and systems guru.
• DougLea
  • CORBA binding
• DougSchmidt
  • ACE, TAU, CORBA book.
• ErichGamma (and the rest of the gang of 4: RichardHelm, RalphJohnson, and JohnVlissides)
  • Design patterns, early GUI, C++ banking software.
• FrancisGlassborow
  • ACCU founder, edition, and reviewer. UK committee member/delegate for a decade or so.
• Hans-JurgenBoehm (HansBoehm)
  • (C and) C++ garbage collectors - C++ concurrency and memory model work.
• HerbSutter
  • Author, columnist, designer of C++/CLI, ISO convener.
• JerrySchwartz
  • IOStreams (the original stream were mine), years on the standards committee.
• JimCoplien
  • Early adventurous user, popularized the notion of idiom (from which "Pattern" borrowed a fair bit), author.
• JonathanShopiro
  • First C++ standards project editor, writer of many early libraries, CORBA C++ binding.
• JohnCarolan
  • First C++ business (not counting AT&T), porter and speaker.
• KevlinHenney
  • Author, inventor and/or popularisor of many technniques.
• KristenNygaard
  • Inventor of Simula and OOP/OOD, many discussions on aims and means of programming.
• MarshallCline
  • C++ FAQ.
• MartinO'Riorden
  • Early Cfront porter, first Microsoft C++ compiler, very Microsoft and Ireland representative.
• MattAustern
  • STL implementor, library WG chair, author.
• MichiHenning
  • CORBA book, ICE.
• MikeTiemann
  • Cygnus founder, first author of GNU C++, wrote GPL-lite to allow use of C++ libraries.
• PjPlauger
  • Library vendor, Implemented an industrial-strength standard library of C++, and continues to track all the changes.
• ScottMeyers
  • Author.
• StanLippman
  • Author, editor of "The C++ Report".
• SteveClamage
  • Early C++ compiler, C++ standards committee chairman, Sun representative.
• ToddVeldhuizen
  • Template metaprogramming, expression templates, proved C++ template instantiation Turing complete, MTL.
• TomCargill
  • Early C++ user, critic, and author (exception safety problems, language size problems).
• TomPlum
  • Defender of the C-view of C++, conformance suite.
• GabrielDosReis
  • Scientific C++ user, co-proponent (with Bjarne) of concepts
• KrzysztofCzarnecki and UlrichEisenecker
  • Authors, popularizers of generative programming in C++ and beyond
  • See GenerativeProgrammingBook

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Names contributed by WalterBright:

• Bjorn Karlsson
  • Author ( see BeyondTheCppStandardLibrary )
• Daveed Vandevoorde
  • first standard conforming C++ compiler
  • also author if CppTemplatesTheCompleteGuide

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Discussion Threads

• Artima
  • http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=226&thread=174250&start=30

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