Appendix
An STL Primer
The world has two kinds of people in it: people who love the STL and use it every day, and people who have never learned the STL. If you're one of the latter, this appendix will hopefully help you get started.
The Standard Template Library is a set of classes and functions that help coders use basic containers (like linked lists and dynamic arrays) and basic algorithms (like sorting). It was officially introduced into the C++ library by the ANSI/ISO C++ Standards Committee in July 1994. Almost all C++ compilers (including Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition) implement the STL fairly well.
Almost all of the classes in the STL are template classes. This makes them usable with any type of object or class, and they are also compiled ...
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