[diskzero]

Stan and I worked together at DreamWorks Animation and I kept in touch with him after we both moved on. At DreamWorks, Stan was dealing with some difficult problems such as moving our code from 32 to 64 bits.

It is inevitable that Stan will be remembered for the C++ Primer. When being introduced to Stan, some percentage of people would recognize his name and ask about the book or some other aspect of C++ history. Stan would kindly respond, but I always got the sense that there were other things he would rather discuss than time spent with Bjarne in front of a whiteboard or dealings with various standards bodies.

Stan was complicated and complex. I feel that he would much rather be remembered as a father, an artist, a dancer and a lover of beauty. We usually can't determine how we will be most remembered, but Stan's work on the C++ Primer, while important, is low on my list of memories of him.