Re: STL (Re: Preferred pbm program for moderation?)

From: dmclean@stsci.edu (Donald F. McLean)

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0000

In article <19990730114209.25872.00003985@ng-bg1.aol.com>,
lizardclan@aol.com (LizardClan) wrote:

> >By just using STL I'm hoping to get it to compile for both Linux and Windows.
>
> Seyed, what's STL?  I have to know.  I'm about to begin development on a
> program myself and I still haven't decided whether to target NT or Linux.  It
> would be great if I could target both.  Seyed (or anyone else), please send me
> information regarding STL.  A web site would be great.

The best site for STL is http://www.stlport.org

STL - Standard Template Library. A C++ library which relieve very heavily
on templates (don't try to read source unless you are template expert!).
Contains mainly strings, data structures (lists, hash tables, etc) and
algorithms which can be generically applied to the data structures
(buzzword is Generic Programming). Can be extended by adding additional
data structures which, if they support the interfaces correctly can
take advantage of the existing algorithms or by adding algorithms which
can use the existing data structures.

Requires a good modern C++ compiler (the web site has good notes about
what works). Need to be modest in their use as heavily templated classes
used indiscriminantly can suffer from code bloat.

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Donald F. McLean                           #include <Disclaimer.h>
Space Telescope Science Institute          http://www.stsci.edu

References

Re: Preferred pbm program for moderation?
"Seyed Razavi" <seyed@kmpinternet.com>
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0000
STL (Re: Preferred pbm program for moderation?)
lizardclan@aol.com (LizardClan)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 00:00:00 +0000