I used it because it was recommended by Stephan T. Lavavej, maintainer of Visual Studio's C++ Standard Library, in his "rand() Considered Harmful" talk, back wh

I used it because it was recommended by Stephan T. Lavavej, maintainer of Visual Studio's C++ Standard Library, in his "rand() Considered Harmful" talk, back when <random> was introduced. See 11m30s. https://youtu.be/LDPMpc-ENqY?t=10m50s https://youtu.be/LDPMpc-ENqY?t=10m50s