[oclug] STL was: More flame bait: OO

[Greg Franks]

>>>>> "David" == David F Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> writes:
    >> Not to mention, the STL is a bit of a mess.

    David> Well, yeah, like the rest of C++.  STL doesn't even pretend
    David> to be object-oriented.

That's why it's called the Standard _Template_ Library.  The authors
are trying to emulate Smalltalk's (Objective C's, Java's) class library
of containers.  Alas, the C++ object model gets in the way.
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