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John Joseph Musser Obituary May 22, 2026 - Resthaven Funeral Home | Baton Rouge, LA
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David "Dave" Musser is a professor emeritus of computer science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, United States. He is known for his work in generic programming, particularly as applied to C++, and his collaboration with Alexander Stepanov. Their work together includes coining the term "generic programming" in Musser & Stepanov (1989), and led to the creation of the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). In Musser (1997), he developed the sorting algorithm called introsort
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