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2 unusual facts about Standard Template Library


Standard Template Library

Although David Musser had developed and advocated some aspects of generic programming already by year 1971, it was limited to a rather specialized area of software development (computer algebra).

Stepanov recognized the full potential for generic programming and persuaded his then-colleagues at General Electric Research and Development (including, primarily, David Musser and Deepak Kapur) that generic programming should be pursued as a comprehensive basis for software development.



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Meng Lee

Lee co-authored the definitive book The C++ Standard Template Library with P.J. Plauger, Alexander Stepanov, and David Musser.