The STL is optional. Templates are widely used in container formats, but in real world programming, for example when people model shopping carts or so, most of

The STL is optional. Templates are widely used in container formats, but in real world programming, for example when people model shopping carts or so, most of the code out there does not use templates. Let's get real here and look at a code repository like codeproject or codeguru - those sites hold diverse examples of real world code - and template usage is minimal.