Alex Stepanov, Generic Programming, and the STL
Jon Kalb
14:00-15:30, Thursday, 3rd April 2025
This talk introduces Alex Stepanov, the creator of the Standard Template Library and the founder of the Generic Programming paradigm.
Audiences will come away knowing about Alex’s career, but more importantly, knowledge of the Generic Programming paradigm and a deep understanding of the STL and how best to use and extending it to solve real-world problems with high levels of reliability and efficiency
Jon Kalb
Jon Kalb is using his decades of software engineering experience and knowledge about C++ to make other people better software engineers. He trains experienced software engineers to be better programmers. He presents at and helps run technical conferences and local user groups.
Jon is passionate about quality code and wants to inspire others to achieve their best engineering work. He is excited about modern C++ and how we can exploit the latest hardware developments with standard, portable C++.