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Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov est un informaticien d'origine soviétique, né à Moscou le 16 novembre 1950, où il a étudié les mathématiques. Spécialiste de la programmation générique, il est le créateur, avec Meng Lee, d'une bibliothèque du langage C++ appelée Standard Template Library. Il a commencé à développer la STL aux environs de 1992 lorsqu'il était employé de HP Labs. Il avait travaillé auparavant aux Laboratoires Bell et avait essayé de convaincre Bjarne Stroustrup d'introduire quelque chose ressemblant aux génériques d'Ada, dans C++.

Il est l'auteur d’Elements of Programming, un livre qui est issu du cours Foundations of Programming que Stepanov donnait à Adobe Systems lorsqu'il y était employé.

Il a pris sa retraite d'A9.com en janvier 2016. Wikipedia

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“Putting it simply, STL is the result of a bacterial infection.”

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An Interview with A. Stepanov by Graziano Lo Russo, 2008-04-25 http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html,

“I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.”

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An Interview with A. Stepanov by Graziano Lo Russo, 2008-04-25 http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html,

“I discovered the works of Euler and my perception of the nature of mathematics underwent a dramatic transformation. I was de-Bourbakized, stopped believing in sets, and was expelled from the Cantorian paradise. I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it. I learned that one has to adapt abstractions to reality and not the other way around. Mathematics stopped being a science of theories but reappeared to me as a science of numbers and shapes.”

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Bjarne Stroustrup: Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006. ACM HOPL-III. June 2007., 2008-04-25, http://web.archive.org/web/20071120015600/http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-almost-final.pdf, 2007-11-20 http://www.research.att.com/~bs/hopl-almost-final.pdf,