collection of reusable container classes. It consists of vectors, lists, queues, and stacks. The STL
is portable with various operating systems.
The Meng Lee and Alexander Stepanov of Hewlett-Packard introduced the STL and accepted
it in 1994 as an addition to the customary C++ library. The STL provides well-coded and com-
piled data structures and functions that are helpful in generic programming; and it is reusable.
The STL topics are very vast; hence, their complete description is beyond the scope of this book.
Only major features are explained. STL contents are defined in the namespace std. It is
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