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Barbara E. Moo

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Barbara E. Moo
Born
NationalityAmerican
Known forC++
SpouseAndrew R. Koenig
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsAT&T
Independent Consultant
Author

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.

Biography

Moo worked at AT&T for 15 years, working on one of the first commercial products using C++.

Bibliography

  • 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

Quotes

  • "Abstraction is selective ignorance," -- Barbara E. Moo, Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, Addison-Wesley, 2000. ISBN 0-201-70353-X

Quoted in Hayles, N. Katherine, "My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts,"

References