Alexander Stepanov
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Alexander Stepanov (born 16 November 1950) is a computer scientist and the key person behind the C++ Standard Template Library.
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- Putting it simply, STL is the result of a bacterial infection.
- An Interview with A. Stepanov by Graziano Lo Russo. Retrieved on 2008-04-25.
- 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.
