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The Standard Template Library

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Should every programmer make his/her own vector class, list class, and so on? Oh, of course not. So some time back the Standard Template Library (STL) was developed and put into the standard. In STL you'll find containers like list and vector; strings, as we already use them; and commonly needed functions like swap, find, and copy.

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Briggs, W. (2019). The Standard Template Library. In: C++ for Lazy Programmers. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5187-4_23

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