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Reap the benefits of the C++ Standard Template Library

The STL is a major enhancement to the C++ programming language and I am happy to see articles publicizing it.

It is often hard to get old C and C++ programmers to give up their pointers, linked lists, static arrays, and static character strings, but the improvements in productivity and reliability are well worth the effort. The efficiency argument is often raised, but different measurements provide different results and the magnitude of the differences are far overshadowed by improvements in hardware. The tweaks you make today for efficiency will usually be immaterial on the target platform in 6 - 12 months.

I hope we can continue to see C++ articles about the use of the STL and I hope developers begin to use the STL to their advantage.

I enjoyed the clarity of the explanations, and the ample examples.

When it comes down to ensuring that off-by-one errors are dealt with properly, both using begin() and end() and for_each are the best way to go.

very informative, lots of examples really helped.