Exception safety guarantees have been around for decades and were originally defined by David Abrahams who was on the C++ standards board. As the author is a M

Exception safety guarantees have been around for decades and were originally defined by David Abrahams who was on the C++ standards board. As the author is a Microsoft employee I'm a little surprised no attribution or reference to the original author of (the levels of) exception safety guarantees which his article partly describes. Raymond Chen (article author) is refering to the "no throw guarantee" in his article as opposed to one of the other outcomes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_safety https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_safety