From: grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se   
      
   On Fri, 2012-02-10, Richard Smith wrote:   
   > I'm doing some coding in my spare time on an open source C++ project   
   > which I won't name the project to avoid any embarrassment.  The code   
   > base is about 250k lines long.  Much of the code is quite object   
   > oriented in nature, though not excessively so.  Exceptions are used only   
   > very rarely, which is just as well as much of the code is not exception   
   > safe.  (Certainly no RAII here!)  Templates are used a bit, but not   
   > heavily.  Other than a GUI library there are no third party libraries in   
   > use.  All in all, I'd describe the code as pretty reasonable, though of   
   > a rather dated style.   
   >   
   > Recently I've been pushing to modernise the code in a bit.   
   ...   
   >   
   > But I'm getting nowhere.  "The STL is inefficient", I'm told.  "It's   
   > buggy or missing on many of the architectures we support."  "Why change?   
   > We're fine with what we've got."  And so on.   
      
   Just curious: which are those target architectures without a working   
   STL?  It sounds like a rare thing in 2012; users on that platform will   
   have to abstain from a lot of other free software. Maybe not because   
   there's so much useful free C++ code out there, but because a lot of   
   other modern conveniences are surely missing there too.   
      
   /Jorgen   
      
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