Pete Becker is a consultant and computer programmer, recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in the

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. He has been contributing to the C++ standardization process since its start and has authored several publications, including magazine articles and columns, and a book on the first C++ Library Technical Report (aka TR1).

Career

Becker worked for eight years at

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as a quality assurance engineer and manager, library implementor, and development manager. From 1997 to 2005 he was employed at

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, working on the

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and documentation of their

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and

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implementations.

C++ Standards Committee

Becker has been a member of the ISO/IEC (JTC1/SC22/WG21) C++ Standards committee since its inception in 1991. His work includes a proposal for standard support of dynamic libraries and

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in C++. He has been the Project Editor from 2004 until 2011, when

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was released.

Publications

Becker has written several

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s and articles, focusing primarily on

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. From 1995 to 2001, Becker was a regular columnist for

C/C++ Users Journal ''C/C++ Users Journal'' was a computer magazine dedicated to the C and C++ programming languages published in the United States from 1985 to 2006. It was one of the last printed magazines to cover specifically this topic (apart from ACCU's jo ...

. From 2005 to 2006 he wrote a monthly column entitled "The New C++ Not-So-Standard Library", focusing on various aspects of the C++ TR1 library extensions. After C/C++ Users Journal merged with Dr Dobb's Journal, Becker's column reappeared as "The New C++", now focusing on more general aspects of C and

programming. In 2006 he published ''The C++ Standard Library Extensions: A Tutorial and Reference'', a book covering the new functions and components proposed as extensions to the

C++ Technical Report 1 C++ Technical Report 1 (TR1) is the common name for ''ISO/IEC TR 19768, C++ Library Extensions'', which is a document that proposed additions to the C++ standard library for the C++03 language standard. The additions include regular expressions, s ...

References

External links

Pete Becker's homepage
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