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Pete Becker is a consultant and computer programmer, recognized as one of the world's foremost experts in the C++ programming language. He has been contributing to the C++ standardization process since its start and has authored several publications, including magazine articles and columns, and a book on the first C++ Library Technical Report (aka TR1).

Career
Becker worked for eight years at Borland International as a quality assurance engineer and manager, library implementor, and development manager. From 1997 to 2005 he was employed at Dinkumware, working on the source code and documentation of their C++ Standard Library and C Standard Library implementations.

C++ Standards Committee
Becker has been a member of the ISO/IEC (JTC1/SC22/WG21) C++ Standards committee since its inception in 1991. His work includes a proposal for standard support of dynamic libraries and arbitrary-precision arithmetic in C++. He has been the Project Editor from 2004 until 2011, when C++11 was released.

Dynamic Libraries
Becker's reasoning for the support of dynamic libraries are runtime flexibility, application updates, simplification of coding modules, and reduction of system memory requirements.

Syntax proposition was not yet declared. Although, it is clear to all C++ programmers that the syntax should involve the following properties.

// it should be applicable to individual names:

shared int i;        // shared linkage

// it should be applicable to a block at file scope, affecting all names declared within the block that would otherwise have external linkage:

shared {

int j;          // shared linkage

static int k;   // internal linkage

}

// it should be applicable to a class, giving all member functions and all static data members shared linkage:

shared class C {

int c0;         // no linkage

static int c1;  // shared linkage

void f;       // shared linkage

};

// it should be applicable to an explicit template specialization (but not to a mere template):

template  class D {

int d0;         // no linkage

static int d1;  // no linkage

void f;       // no linkage

};

shared template <> D ;

// D ::d1 and D ::f have shared linkage

Publications
Becker has written several columns and articles, focusing primarily on C++. From 1995 to 2001, Becker was a regular columnist for C/C++ Users Journal. From 2005 to 2006 he wrote a monthly column entitled "The New C++ Not-So-Standard Library", focusing on various aspects of the C++ TR1 library extensions. After C/C++ Users Journal merged with Dr Dobb's Journal, Becker's column reappeared as "The New C++", now focusing on more general aspects of C and C++ programming.

In 2006 he published The C++ Standard Library Extensions: A Tutorial and Reference, a book covering the new functions and components proposed as extensions to the C++ Standard Library in C++ Technical Report 1.