It's not a discovery per se, since its creation was deliberate, but it's a practice exercised throughout the STL (the C++ standard template library), and is a t

It's not a discovery per se, since its creation was deliberate, but it's a practice exercised throughout the STL (the C++ standard template library), and is a term coined by C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup himself. It could be considered a "standard pattern" in lieu of a better term.