# Fifty Years of Programming, Twenty Years of STL

- Institution: CERN
- Department: Computing Seminar
- Speaker: Plauger Dr. Philipp J.
- Year: 2014
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3002054)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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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## Lectures

1. [Fifty Years of Programming, Twenty Years of STL](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3002054/977c854f58fa), 1 h 9 min (CERN's player)