Barbara E. Moo is an American computer scientist known for co-authoring several books on C++, working on an early product written in C++, and directing AT&T's WorldNet AT&T's Internet services business.

Barbara E. Moo
Born
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Indiana at Bloomington (BA; MBA)
Known forC++
SpouseAndrew Koenig
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsAT&T
Independent Consultant
Author

Biography

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Moo worked at AT&T for 15 years, working on one of the first commercial products using C++. While at AT&T, she worked closely with C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrup and managed the C++ development team for several years.[1] She directed the development of AT&T's WorldNet Internet service business.

Bibliography

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  • Moo, Barbara; E. Josée Lajoie; Stanley B. Lippman, "C++ Primer", 2012. ISBN 978-0321714114
  • Moo, Barbara; Koenig, Andrew, Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-70353-X
  • Moo, Barbara; Koenig, Andrew, Ruminations on C++: A Decade of Programming Insight and Experience, Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN 0-201-42339-1

Interview

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Quotes

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  • "Abstraction is selective ignorance" —Barbara E. Moo, Andrew R. Koenig in Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-70353-X (and quoted in Hayles, N. Katherine, My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts, University of Chicago Press, 2005. Cf. p.58)

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