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Ulrich Breymann
ponents with the C++ STL
revised edition
Date of print: September 22, 2002
for Lena, Niko and Anne
Foreword
Ironically, it was in Waterloo that the STL was adopted as part of the ISO/ANSI Stan-
dard C++ Library, and from that day on it went onto a triumphal march. Alexander
Stepanov and Meng Lee had proposed the result of years of research at Hewlett-
Packard, a standard template library, to the mittee. mittee
gracefully adopted the STL as part of the C++ Standard at mittee meeting in
Waterloo in the summer of 1994, after countless controversial discussions and much
work spent mittee members on making the STL fit for a standard. Most
importantly, the adoption was tied to the condition that the source code had to be
made publicly available. Since then the STL has e more and more popular in
the C++ community and conquered the hearts of quite a number of programmers.
Personally, I know of software developers who cannot imagine getting their work
done anymore without a general-purpose library like the STL. Obviously, not all
Waterloos are the same. This Waterloo was in Ontario – seemingly a good omen.
Much of the merit, however, is not seriously due to picking the right location
for presenting a library. The STL is an invaluable foundation library that makes
programmers more productive in two ways. It contains a lot of ponents
that can be plugged together