Professional Developers Conference 2009 Technical Leaders Panel 7

Herb Sutter is a prominent

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expert. He is also a book author and was a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal. He joined

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in 2002 as a platform

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for

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.NET, rising to lead software architect for

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. Sutter has served as secretary and convener of the ISO C++ standards committee for over 10 years. In September 2008 he was replaced by

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. He then re-assumed the convener position, after Plauger resigned in October 2009. In recent years Sutter was lead designer for C++/CX and

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Education and career

Sutter was born and raised in

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, before studying computer science at Canada's

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. From 1995 to 2001 he was chief technology officer at PeerDirect where he designed the PeerDirect database replication engine.

Bibliography

* ''Exceptional C++'' (

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, 2000, ) * ''More Exceptional C++'' (

, 2002, ) * ''Exceptional C++ Style'' (

, 2005, ) * ''C++ Coding Standards'' (together with

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, 2005, )

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutter, Herb Living people Canadian computer programmers People in information technology Microsoft employees C++ people Year of birth missing (living people)