WhosWhoInCpp

Last edit October 20, 2010
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

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:

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:

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

Names contributed by WalterBright:

Discussion Threads

CategoryCpp