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Fifty Years of Programming, Twenty Years of STL

Plauger Dr. Philipp J. · CERN

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Software development has come a long way since 1963, and C++ has come a long way since 1993. Dr. Plauger offers highlights of his journey from writing Fortran for the Princeton Cyclotron Group, through mastering the C++ Standard Template Library, to his current activities as author, C/C++ libraries vendor, and standards wonk.

About the speaker

P.J. Plauger has earned a living for over 50 years writing software and writing about software, professions for which he has no formal training. His hobby is physics, having earned a Ph.D. in nuclear physics.

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  1. Fifty Years of Programming, Twenty Years of STL 2014-06-10 · 1 h 9 min · CERN's player

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Institution
CERN
Department
Computing Seminar
Speaker
Plauger Dr. Philipp J.
Year
2014
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science
Source
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