Re: Whats the best language to learn...

"Juha Nieminen" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:BCxrk.113$fv3.22@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
cr88192 wrote:
in particular, before it had sounded like maybe you had thought STL was a
part of the compiler (vs being part of the standard library), ...

I only said that the standard C++ library is part of the C++ language
(because it's defined and specified by the C++ standard). This means
that, effectively, you can use anything in the standard library as if it
was part of the core language. The differences are purely technical and
compiler implementation related.

What bothered me is that some people here seem to talk about the "STL"
(which is an obsolete name, really) as if it was some kind of separate,
third-party library set (similar to, for example, the boost libraries)
rather than part of the C++ language specification, while at the same
time considering things like "system()" to be part of the standard C
language (even though that is also just a function defined in a library).

In C++ there's no big difference between, for example, <stdio.h>
and <list>. Both are standard libraries. There's not such a thing as
"the STL" (that name is only a historical one for a boost-style set of
libraries which were at the time still not part of the C++ standard).
While it is still used nowadays to talk about certain parts of the C++
library, it's not really the "official" name.


The beauty of C++ is that one could use pure C++ to implement the STL; no platform dependant crap needed indeed!

=^D

.

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