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Last updated on December 6, 2024.

Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov is a Russian-American computer programmer, best known as an advocate of generic programming and as the primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library, which he started to develop around 1992 while employed at HP Labs. He had earlier been working for Bell Labs close to Andrew Koenig and tried to convince Bjarne Stroustrup to introduce something like Ada generics in C++. He is credited with the notion of concept.

American - Author | Born: November 16, 1950

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I find OOP technically unsound.

Alexander Stepanov

Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm

Alexander Stepanov

I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

Alexander Stepanov

I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

Alexander Stepanov

Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

Alexander Stepanov

I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

Alexander Stepanov