Re: STL still in standard

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From: Matt Austern
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 02:36

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In article <4dj7eu$2sp@news.ios.com> aishdas@haven.ios.com (Micha Berger)
writes:

> STL just isn't OO. It's the creation of algorythms that are not connected
> to the data they act upon. That doesn't make STL inherently wrong, but it
> does seem out of place in light of the number of design decisions made
> to enable OO.

It's true that STL isn't an object-oriented library; it was never
supposed to be.  It enables generic programming, which is a valuable
technique in its own right.

There's no reason why every C++ library should be object-oriented: The
design goal of C++ has always been to support object-oriented
programming, but to support other styles of programming too.  Bjarne
Stroustrup discusses this in great detail in D&E.
-- 
Matt Austern
SGI: MTI Compilers Group
austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com
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From: austern@isolde.mti.sgi.com (Matt Austern)
Message-ID: <AUSTERN.96Jan17133343@isolde.mti.sgi.com>
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