The STL is not a third party library anymore and most of it has been part of the standard for several years now. I would be curious to know what problems did yo

The STL is not a third party library anymore and most of it has been part of the standard for several years now. I would be curious to know what problems did you have with the STL, and how long ago? In my experience most people who refused to use the STL did it for the wrong reasons. Even the EASTL (which makes a good case against the standard library implementations) implements the STL interface.