What I meant was: I want to spent my time with the problems that I must solve, not with by programming language induced problems! When I really need speed, I a

What I meant was: I want to spent my time with the problems that I must solve, not with by programming language induced problems! When I really need speed, I always can implement single routines in pure C -- I don't need an STL abstraction for that, that feigns speed to the programmer, but in the end it does not give it to him, because he chose the wrong abstraction. It seems so easy: Just use the STL/std-c++ library and all your speed problems are solved -- but std-libraries do not make a bad programmer a good one -- instead, it creates programmers that invest their time in language specifics instead in data structures and algorithms. So bad programmers will be even worse in the end.