Я только знаю, что к реализации export template был причастен Вандервуд
The real heroes of this sad tale are the implementers of
the EDG compiler: Steve Adamczyk, John Spicer,and David Vandevoorde. They strongly opposed separate compilation of templates, finally voted for the standard as the best compromise attainable, and then proceeded to spend more than a year implementing what they had opposed. That’s professionalism! The implementation was every bit as difficult as its opponents had predicted, but it worked and provided
some (though not all) of the benefits that its proponents had promised.