COLLOQUIUM
         Computer Science Department, Boston University

Speaker:  Stan Lippman
          Microsoft Research 
          slippman@microsoft.com
          http://blogs.msdn.com/slippman

Title: C++/CLI: Integrating C++ into the Dynamic Programming Paradigm

Date:  October 18, 2004
Time:  11am
Place: MCS 135 (for directions, see www.cs.bu.edu/colloquium)

Abstract:

The C++ Object Model is a static programming model emphasizing minimal
space and time overhead over flexibility. In C++/CLI, we have extended
C++ to support the dynamic programming object model of the Common
Language Infrastructure (CLI). While the C++/CLI language design was
initiated within Microsoft, it is currently undergoing ECMA
standardization. This talk looks at the challenges and solutions to
integrating the CLI dynamic object model with ISO-C++ and presents an
overview of the resulting language. I'll end with some provocative
generalizations about the life-cycle of programming languages.


Biography: 

Stan Lippman is an Architect with the Visual C++ team at Microsoft. He
began working on C++ with its inventor Bjarne Stroustrup back in 1984
within Bell Laboratories. In between, he worked in Feature Animation at
Disney and DreamWorks, was a Distinguished Consultant with JPL, and was
a Software Technical Director on Fantasia 2000. He is the author of C++
Primer and Inside the C++ Object Model.

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