I was using both templates and the stl heavily in 2002. I started learning c++ in 94 or 95 can't remember. Turbo c++ did not have templates, before the 98 stand

I was using both templates and the stl heavily in 2002. I started learning c++ in 94 or 95 can't remember. Turbo c++ did not have templates, before the 98 standard it mostly was c with classes. And lots of unnecessary inheritance and overloading. Edit, should include that the experience in 2002 was on a corporate project which ultimately had many millions of lines of code, so not just some crazy guy in a basement. Lots of crazy people were in the basement with me.