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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.

Alexander Stepanov

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.

Alexander Stepanov

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

Alexander Stepanov

Alexander Stepanov

Alexander Stepanov

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Born: November 16, 1950 (age 75)

Bio: Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov, born November 16, 1950 in Moscow, is the primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library, which he started to develop around 1992 while employed at HP Labs.

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