it seems to me Stepanov is good at convincing people so that he was able to push his ideas and make his marks no matter where he was, hehe.
And libstdc++, anyone knows the history? (Wiki redirect this item to "C++ standard Library") Hai On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Ken Bloom<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 19:51 -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >> Hai Yi wrote: >> > I've been reading some general stuff about C++, it appears to me that >> > in unix/linux, libstdc++ is a c++ implementation from gnu, but there >> > are the sgi and hp's copyright info in the header files like >> > /usr/include/c++/4.3/vector . I used to use sgi's stl website as >> > reference (http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ ), which gave me an impression >> > that this company used to be a big contributor to C++ (or STL? ) >> > standardization; however, from wiki, it appears HP is the one behind >> > the STL effort. >> > >> > Anyone can have a brief history lesson about libstdc++, sgl and hp's >> > relations in regard to STL? >> >> Alexander Stepanov might [1][2] have something to say about the latter >> two, but I don't think he reads this mailing list. >> >> [1] http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/drdobbs-interview.html >> [2] http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html >> > > Sounds from these articles and Wikipedia like: > > Alexander Stepanov is the contributor, and whatever company employs him > at the time is the one behind the the STL effort. So the earliest > conceptual work in generic programming was stuff Stepanov did at GE and > later AT&T. Stepanov must have started working with generic programming > in C++ when he was at HP (and he published a full STL while he was > there). He then did further development on the STL at SGI, and that's > the version that's standardized. > > There are other languages these days that also seem to do a good job at > generic programming, in particular Haskell, and dynamic languages like > Ruby. > > --Ken > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
