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Just never put STL into your environment. What's what I've seen at a number of C purist dev shops. At first, younger C++ developers complain about the missing S
by bsenftner 11y ago
Just never put STL into your environment. What's what I've seen at a number of C purist dev shops. At first, younger C++ developers complain about the missing STL, but if they actually know how to write the algorithms STL provides, their complaints die after some ribbing from the old guys. It's actually something of beauty when a developer realizes how much of a crutch STL had been to them, and the ease of working without it. Code complexity reduces too, because STL seems to encourage creating complexity over simplicity. Teah, it's not supposed to be that way, but we live in the real world.
- catnaroek 11y agoI'll be the last one to say the STL (or, rather, its standard library port) is pretty, but damned should I be if I need to reimplement the same data structures and algorithms over and over. Parametric polymorphism is something every statically typed programming language should have in 2015. I'm aware templates aren't quite parametrically polymorphic, but it's still better than nothing.