Pacific++ 2018: Sean Parent "Generic Programming"

Website: https://pacificplusplus.com/ Resources: https://github.com/pacificplusplus/conference Twitter: https://twitter.com/pacificplusplus Abstract: The term "Generic Programming" was coined by Alex Stepanov and David Musser in 1988. It has become one of the most influential ideas to shape programming and has had a profound impact on the evolution of C++. Yet the core concepts of generic programming are still often misunderstood and misrepresented. 30 years in, this talk will look a little at how generic programming came to be, and why it is not simply "another paradigm" for software development. About the speaker: Sean Parent is a principal scientist and software architect for Adobe Photoshop. Sean has been at Adobe since 1993 when he joined as a senior engineer working on Photoshop and later managed Adobe’s Software Technology Lab. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC. Video recorded by: https://www.digitalvideoexperts.com.au/