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- From: David Byrden <100101.2547@compuserve.com>
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- Subject: Re: [Q] possible == Borland + STL; // but how ?
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 05:09:14 GMT
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- >> I've read several posts indicating that the Borland compiler
- >> was used to develop the STL, so I believe it.
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- The Borland compiler was used by the STL's designers at HP
- to build a working prototype, which they then distributed free
- and unsupported. It is not "the STL" because some features
- had to be omitted or scaled back. I don't know whether there
- exists a compiler today which can support the full specification,
- but until the C++ standard is released, that full specification
- is itself not quite clear.
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- Mark Nelson's book is very lucid on the STL both inside and
- out, and is a surprisingly quick read if you have programmed already
- with templates.
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- David
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