The Standard Template Library : The power of C++
 

Beginners in C++ will never know how easy life can get without a bit of knowledge of the Standard Template Library. Many of us who have a bit of grounding in Java realise how the Java API makes lives easier for Java programmers and how just a few lines of code achieves quite complex tasks.

Well, the C++ counterpart can be it's Standard Template Library. It provides C++ programmers with a comprehensive set of efficiently implemented tools and facilities that can be used for most types of applications.

The STL is the nucleus of the C++ standard library, providing the standard containers and algorithms, and the framework for their use and their extension with user-defined containers and algorithms

STL is basically a C++ library of container classes, algorithms, and iterators; it provides many of the basic algorithms and data structures of computer science. The STL is a generic library, meaning that its components are heavily parameterized: almost every component in the STL is a template. You should make sure that you understand how templates work in C++ before you use the STL.

Documentation :

The following is an excellent Documentation of STL :
http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/table_of_contents.html


Books about the STL and generic programming

Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library by Scott Meyers, Addison Wesley, 2001 ISBN 0-201-74962-9

STL for C++ Programmers, by Leen Ammeraal. John Wiley, 1996. ISBN 0-471-97181-2.

Generic Programming and the STL, by Matthew Austern. Addison-Wesley, 1998. ISBN 0-201-30956-4.

Designing Components with the C++ STL, by Ulrich Breymann. Addison Wesley Longman, 1998. ISBN 0-201-17816-8.

Data Structures in C++ Using the Standard Template Library, by Timothy Budd. Addison-Wesley, 1997.

The STL Primer, by Graham Glass and Brett Schuchert. Prentice-Hall, 1996. ISBN 0134549767

The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference, by Nicolai Josuttis. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999. ISBN 0-201-37926-0. (English translation of Die C++-Standardbibliothek.)

STL Tutorial and Reference Guide, by David Musser and Atul Saini. Addison-Wesley, 1996. ISBN 0-201-63398-1.

C++ Programmer's Guide to the Standard Template Library, by Mark Nelson. IDG Books, 1995. ISBN 1-56884-314-3. (No longer in print.)

The Standard Template Library, by P. J. Plauger, Alexander Stepanov, Meng Lee, and David Musser. Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0-13-437633-1. (forthcoming)

Using the STL, by Robert Robson. Springer-Verlag, 1998.

STL Programming from the Ground Up, by Herbert Schildt. Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1999.


Other Resources:

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~wiseb/xrds/ovp2-3b.html
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/...768/index.html

Once you are into STL .... you will never look back ... :cool:

Amit Ray. :)

Re: The Standard Template Library : The power of C++
 

You know you canny use STL in i960 processor due to PCR 4 level of compiler.

Re: The Standard Template Library : The power of C++
 

> You know you canny use STL in i960 processor due to PCR 4 level of compiler.
Do you have any references for this rather bold assertion?
Also, which compiler / STL implementation are you talking about? There are many of each you know.

Re: The Standard Template Library : The power of C++
 

Passport software on Distibuted system means i am talking about In telecom one service is known as "GPRS" . for it One PCUSN node in which Many processor. some of processor are Intel's i960 or Motorola PowerPC and some control processor also. In these sytem operating sytem is VXWORKS . This operating sytem is of windriver company. This VxWorks is very specific to hardware( mainly for Embedded).

This Real Time Passport Operating System does not support RTTI( Run time Type Identification) & Exception. It's not support of template also by compiler of PCR level 4.1 .

Re: The Standard Template Library : The power of C++
 

You know there a lot of products in telecom industries for BTS, BSC, NODE B, PCUSN etc.

Re: The Standard Template Library : The power of C++
 

Any software which is running on VxWorks operating system , Template, Exception, RTTI are not supported by VxWorks so we cannt use C++ or STL.( Now STL is part of C++ itself)