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Dan Saks

Dan Saks is the president of Saks & Associates, which offers training and consulting in C and C++ and their use in developing embedded systems. Dan wrote the “Programming Pointers” column for embedded.com. He also wrote columns for numerous print publications (when such things existed) including The C/C++ Users Journal, The C++ Report, and Embedded Systems Design. With Thomas Plum, he wrote C++ Programming Guidelines, which won a 1992 Computer Language Magazine Productivity Award. Dan has taught C and C++ to thousands of programmers worldwide. He has delivered hundreds of lectures, including a few keynote addresses, at conferences such as the CppCon, the Embedded Systems Conference, and Meeting Embedded. Dan served as secretary of the C++ Standards committee and as a member of the C Standards committee. Dan collaborated in writing and maintaining Suite++™, the Plum Hall Validation Suite for C++. He also contributed to the CERT Secure C Coding Standard and the CERT Secure C++ Coding Standard.

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