
814 Overview of Standard Template Library
(1) The STL is a new expansion in C++
l anguage. The all-famous compiler ven-
dors give the STL as a feature of their
compilers.
(2) The Meng Lee and Alexander Stepanov
of Hewlett Packard introduced the STL.
(3) The STL is portative between different
operating systems. The STL contents are
defined in the namespace std.
(4) The important subdivisions are as fol-
lows: (A) Containers, (B) Algorithms, (C)
Iterators.
(5) A container is an object that holds data or
other objects. An algorithm is a process
that is useful to handle the data stored in
containers. The STL consists ...