Andrei Alexandrescu is a Romania

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n C++

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 programmer

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 and author. He is particularly known for his pioneering work on policy-based design

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 implemented via template metaprogramming

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. These ideas are articulated in his book Modern C++ Design

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and were first implemented in his programming library, Loki

Loki (C++)

Loki is the name of a C++ software library written by Andrei Alexandrescu as part of his book Modern C++ Design.The library makes extensive use of C++ template metaprogramming and implements several commonly used tools: typelist, functor, singleton, smart pointer, object factory, visitor and...

. He also implemented the "move constructors" concept in his MOJO library. He contributed to the C/C++ Users Journal

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under the byline

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 "Generic". Alexandrescu is currently a research scientist at Facebook

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Education and career

Alexandrescu received an M.S. degree in electronics from Polytechnic University of Bucharest

Polytechnic University of Bucharest

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 (Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti) in July 1994.

His first article was published in the C/C++ Users Journal

C/C++ Users Journal

C/C++ Users Journal was a computer magazine published by CMP Media LLC in the United States. The magazine concentrated on the C++ programming language and was one of the last printed magazines to cover the topic....

 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.

Alexandrescu earned an M.S. (2003) and a Ph.D.

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 (2009) in computer science

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 from the University of Washington

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More recently, he has been assisting Walter Bright

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 in the development of the D programming language. Alexandrescu released a book titled The D Programming Language in May 2010.

External links

• Alexandrescu's homepage - Contains links to downloadable Loki libraries for various compiler
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