Herb Sutter

Herb Sutter is a prominent C++ expert. He is also an author of several books on C++ and was a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Education and career

Sutter was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, and studied computer science at Canada's University of Waterloo.^[1]^{[third-party source needed]}

From 1995 to 2001 he was chief technology officer at PeerDirect where he designed the PeerDirect database replication engine.^[1]^{[third-party source needed]}

He joined Microsoft in 2002^[2] as a platform evangelist for Visual C++ .NET,^{[citation needed]} rising to lead software architect for C++/CLI.^[3]^[4] In recent years Sutter was lead designer for C++/CX and C++ AMP.^[4]

Sutter has served as the chair of the ISO C++ standards committee since 2002.^[5]^[3]^[4]

In 2005, Sutter published an article titled "The Free Lunch Is Over"^[6] that claimed that microprocessor serial-processing speed was reaching a physical limit leading to two main consequences:

processor manufacturers would focus on products that better support multithreading (such as multi-core processors), and
software developers would be forced to develop massively multithreaded programs as a way to better use such processors.

The article is seen as highly influential in subsequent system design.^[7]^[8]^[3]

Bibliography

Exceptional C++ (Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-61562-2)
More Exceptional C++ (Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-70434-X)
Exceptional C++ Style (Addison-Wesley, 2005, ISBN 0-201-76042-8)
C++ Coding Standards (together with Andrei Alexandrescu, Addison-Wesley, 2005, ISBN 0-321-11358-6)

References

^ ^a ^b "WG21 (ISO C++ Committee) Members". isocpp.org.
^ Redmond, Wash (March 13, 2002). "ISO/ANSI C++ Standards Committee Secretary Herb Sutter Joins Microsoft's Developer Division". news.microsoft.com. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Redlich, Michael. "QCon New York 2023: Day Three Recap". InfoQ. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Heller, Martin (November 14, 2022). "Beyond C++: The promise of Rust, Carbon, and Cppfront". InfoWorld. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
^ Clarke, Gavin (October 11, 2011). "Sutter: C++11 kicks old-school coding into 21st century". Retrieved 14 September 2023.
^ Sutter, H. (2005). "The free lunch is over: A fundamental turn toward concurrency in software". Dr. Dobb's Journal. Vol. 30, no. 3.
^ Miller, Paul (June 23, 2016). "Why would you want a 1,000 core processor?". The Verge. Retrieved 12 September 2023. Are you familiar with the highly influential piece for programmers by Herb Sutter called "The Free Lunch Is Over"?
^ Schirrmeister, Frank (26 September 2019). "Toward A Lingua Franca For Intelligent System Design". Semiconductor Engineering. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

External links

Media related to Herb Sutter at Wikimedia Commons
Official website

[isocpp-1] "WG21 (ISO C++ Committee) Members". isocpp.org.

[Microsoft_News-2] Redmond, Wash (March 13, 2002). "ISO/ANSI C++ Standards Committee Secretary Herb Sutter Joins Microsoft's Developer Division". news.microsoft.com. Retrieved 4 April 2024.

[day_three-3] Redlich, Michael. "QCon New York 2023: Day Three Recap". InfoQ. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

[Beyond_C++-4] Heller, Martin (November 14, 2022). "Beyond C++: The promise of Rust, Carbon, and Cppfront". InfoWorld. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

[Oldschool-5] Clarke, Gavin (October 11, 2011). "Sutter: C++11 kicks old-school coding into 21st century". Retrieved 14 September 2023.

[6] Sutter, H. (2005). "The free lunch is over: A fundamental turn toward concurrency in software". Dr. Dobb's Journal. Vol. 30, no. 3.

[7] Miller, Paul (June 23, 2016). "Why would you want a 1,000 core processor?". The Verge. Retrieved 12 September 2023. Are you familiar with the highly influential piece for programmers by Herb Sutter called "The Free Lunch Is Over"?

[8] Schirrmeister, Frank (26 September 2019). "Toward A Lingua Franca For Intelligent System Design". Semiconductor Engineering. Retrieved 12 September 2023.

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