About me
Rud Merriam is a retired software developer, having lived through the spaghetti, structured programming, and object-oriented development paradigms. He's now trying to figure out functional programming and the ranges library.
He wrote his first FORTRAN IV in 1968 and his first C++ in 1990 with Borland's Turbo C++. Along the way, he developed computers that measured flow in real pipelines.
More recently, he has been writing about C++ on Medium.com and LinkedIn. He evangelized C++ for embedded systems on Hackaday.com.