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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Terminology - RAII vs. Scope Guard vs...?
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:

> While we didn't call it RAII, we used RAII techniques in an operating
> system in 1989 (using Cfront 2.1).  I'm not sure when BS codified it.

"Design & Evolution of C++" (S16.5) suggests that BS and Andrew Koenig
described it at the C++ Conference in 1990, so it looks like you hit
upon it roughly contemporaneously.