Designing components with the C++STL Addison Wesley

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Ironically, it was in Waterloo that the STL was adopted as part of the ISO/ANSI Standard 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 HewlettPackard, a standard