It should be noted that Paul Pedriana, the original developer of EASTL and many other things, just recently passed away unexpectedly. He was an EA programming legend.
Oh, that's terrible news :( We had some good conversations about the EASTL design with him early on designing the Rust standard library. Very smart and articulate guy.
Sad news. It sounds like he must have been a really influential and inspiring person to work with. We could all hope to have the fortune of having people like this in our cohort of colleagues around us! :)
I love this bit of the 1993 bio on Mobygames: "I do this computer work on the side as a hobby"
Note of passing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/20296764839/posts/1015929527...
EASTL paper: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n227...
Partial list of Paul's programming credits: https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,2...