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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.
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:
The article is seen as highly influential in subsequent system design. [7] [8] [3]
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Are you familiar with the highly influential piece for programmers by Herb Sutter called "The Free Lunch Is Over"?
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