Barbara E. Moo
American computer scientist

Barbara E. Moo

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American computer scientist
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(South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA)
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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.

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

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  • "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,"