What Does C++20 Owe to an Early 20th-century Mathematician?
Presented by Walter E. Brown at Core C++ [online] meetup, Mar 2022. The slides can be found at https://bit.ly/cpp20emmy.
This short talk illuminates the life and times of a mathematician whose astonishing contributions have made possible one of the most significant advances in C++.
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With broad experience in industry, academia, consulting, and research, Dr. Walter E. Brown has been a computer programmer for almost 60 years, and a C++ programmer for more than 40 years.
He joined the C++ standards effort in 2000, and has since written circa 175 proposal papers. Among numerous other contributions, he is responsible for introducing such now-standard C++ library features as cbegin/cend, common_type, gcd/lcm, void_t, and cmath’s mathematical special functions, as well as the headers random and ratio. He has also significantly impacted such C++ core language features as alias templates, contextual conversions, variable templates, static_assert, and operator ⟨=⟩ (the C++20 “spaceship operator”).
