> 1998, and even that version was more about documenting what was out there rather than prescriptively designing anything. That was the original intent, I thin

> 1998, and even that version was more about documenting what was out there rather than prescriptively designing anything. That was the original intent, I think, but decision to incorporate the STL caused the standard library to change massively late in the standardization process. P.J. Plauger wrote a book on the 1995 version of the C++ library, that ended up being massively different than what the standard adopted: https://www.amazon.com/Draft-Standard-Library-P-Plauger/dp/0131170031 https://www.amazon.com/Draft-Standard-Library-P-Plauger/dp/0...