STL

C++ Standard Template Library – List

The Standard Template Library (STL) is one of the most essential features of C++. It has very much grown in recent years. Basically, the Standard Template Library provides templatized, general-purpose classes as well as methods. These classes and functions/methods implement several popular and most commonly used algorithms as well as data structures.

C++ 17 – New and Removed Features

You must have heard that C++17 is now feature full or feature complete. C++ 17 is the most recent version of C++ programming language revised by ISO/IEC 14882 standard. Its specification reached the DIS (Draft International Standard) stage in March 2017 and after approval, the final standard was published in December 2017. Hundreds of proposals were put forward for updating the features in C++17.

The C++ Standard Library

STL: The C++ Standard Template Library

The STL (Standard Template Library) was originally a third-party library from HP and later SGI, before its incorporation into the C++ standard. The standard does not refer to it as “STL”, as it is merely a part of the standard library, but many people still use that term to distinguish it from the rest of the library (input/output streams [known as IOstreams], internationalization, diagnostics, the C library subset, etc.).

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