From: brangdon@cix.co.uk   
      
   miles@gnu.org (Miles Bader) wrote (abridged):   
   > 15 years ago, things were less developed, the STL was not so   
   > standard, compilers did a poorer job, there were lots of issues with   
   > templates, exception support sucked, etc.  So back then maybe there   
   > would be some excuse to avoid the STL and other features.   
      
   Recent versions of Microsoft VC++ have included "checked iterators". In   
   some versions they are enabled by default even in RELEASE builds,   
   although I think they've since changed that. They make everything slower.   
   (And they also include hidden multi-threading locks which make them   
   dangerous to use in DEBUG builds if you don't use them in RELEASE.)   
      
   So it's not just decades-old compilers that have problems.   
      
   -- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.   
      
      
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