| Andrei Alexandrescu | |
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Alexandrescu at ACCU 2009 |
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| Born | 1969 (age 42–43) |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Education | Politehnica University of Bucharest and University of Washington |
| Occupation | Research scientist at Facebook |
| Known for | Expert on C++ programming |
| Spouse | Sanda Alexandrescu |
| Website | |
| erdani.org | |
Andrei Alexandrescu is a Romanian C++ programmer and author. He is particularly known for his pioneering work on policy-based design implemented via template metaprogramming. These ideas are articulated in his book Modern C++ Design and were first implemented in his programming library, Loki. He also implemented the "move constructors" concept in his MOJO library.[1] He contributed to the C/C++ Users Journal under the byline "Generic<Programming>". Alexandrescu is currently a research scientist at Facebook.
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Alexandrescu received an M.S. degree in electronics from Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti) in July 1994.[2][3]
His first article was published in the C/C++ Users Journal in September 1998. He was a program manager for Netzip, Inc. from April 1999 until February 2000. When the company was acquired by RealNetworks, Inc., he served there as a development manager from February 2000 through September 2001.[2]
Alexandrescu earned an M.S. (2003) and a Ph.D. (2009) in computer science from the University of Washington.[4][5][6]
More recently, he has been assisting Walter Bright in the development of the D programming language. Alexandrescu released a book titled The D Programming Language in May 2010.
Alexandrescu, Herb Sutter, and Scott Meyers run C++ and Beyond, a small annual technical conference.
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