From: clcppm-poster@this.is.invalid   
      
   In article  Nick Maclaren asked:   
   > Does anyone use the STL (and I mean the STL, not BOOST) for scientific   
   > programming and, if so, what parts and for what?   
   >   
   > I am not talking about incidental use, but where it provides a major   
   > advantage over rolling one's own for the sort of programmer capable   
   > of writing a serious scientific program in a language like C++.   
      
   In article <9f6d89F6dtU1@mid.individual.net> I replied   
   > I use  std::vector  and  std::complex  routinely in scientific programs   
   > (and have done so since the late 1990s).  [[...]]   
      
   I should perhaps add that today I'm using std::set< std::pair >   
   as part of a test harness for some tricky finite-differencing routines.   
      
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