EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library

Re:EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library by belazeebub on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:10PM (#28063547)

It should be noted that Paul Pedriana, the original developer of EASTL and many other things, just recently passed away unexpectedly. He was an EA programming legend.

Note of passing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/20296764839/posts/1015929527...

EASTL paper: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...

Partial list of Paul's programming credits: https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,2...

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Re:EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library by vlovich123 on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:20PM (#28063674)

Shit. I just worked with Paul not too long ago at Oculus. That’s a real loss.

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Re:EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library by pcwalton on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:07AM (#28070744)

Oh, that's terrible news :( We had some good conversations about the EASTL design with him early on designing the Rust standard library. Very smart and articulate guy.

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Re:EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library by amatecha on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:49PM (#28079578)

Sad news. It sounds like he must have been a really influential and inspiring person to work with. We could all hope to have the fortune of having people like this in our cohort of colleagues around us! :)

I love this bit of the 1993 bio on Mobygames: "I do this computer work on the side as a hobby"

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Re:EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library by adamrezich on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @01:55PM (#28064085)

>Partial list of Paul's programming credits

MS Hearts, wow!

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