Many of the early systems were made in a very short amount of time by a very small number of people who had remarkably bad tools. I wrote code (pre-STL) for li

Many of the early systems were made in a very short amount of time by a very small number of people who had remarkably bad tools. I wrote code (pre-STL) for linked lists, sorted arrays, array lookups, and everything. And without modern languages (like C#!), I had to fight with not screwing up pointers.