Thanks dozzie and pjmlp, I should have credited Alexander Stepanov. He is a great programmer and educator that has impacted my CS education. What I meant was th

Thanks dozzie and pjmlp, I should have credited Alexander Stepanov. He is a great programmer and educator that has impacted my CS education. What I meant was that C++ was the first widely adopted language that had memory access and sufficient generic features for the STL to be written and easily used.