I'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

I'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.