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   From: daniel.kruegler@googlemail.com   
      
   Am 25.02.2012 22:52, schrieb P. Areias:   
   >> If you are stuck in a place where they still don't believe in templates and   
   the STL, 100 years of experience won't do any good.   
   >>   
   >   
   > Note that you are mixing, in one argument, the template   
   > parametrization mechanism with one of its applications (the Standard   
   > Library containers - or STL).   
      
   This is quite misleading. Even though STL is no official term of the   
   standard it is typically be translated as "Standard Template Library",   
   not "Standard Library Containers".   
      
   > The latter imposes an additional   
   > decision on what is now C++: the departure from object-oriented   
   > paradigm (for performance reasons). This is an issue.   
      
   C++ does not follow some special paradigm, and so does the library   
   reflect several paradigms - including object-oriented and functional. I   
   don't see how this is "an issue". It may be an issue, if you have very   
   special constraints on the types that you are using, maybe: All names   
   need to start with upper-case, all class types must have a virtual   
   destructor, among a lot of others. If the library would have required   
   virtual destructor for std::vector - just as an example, because you are   
   referring to containers - it would unnecessarily impose runtime   
   constraints on user code that would not take advantage of dynamic   
   polymorphism. If you need *additional* polymorphic containers, you can   
   build your own library (most parts in terms of non-polymorphic   
   containers like those from the Standard Library). If you think that your   
   polymorphic library is of interest for others as well, this could be a   
   very reasonable base for a corresponding proposal provided to the C++   
   Standard Committee.   
      
   Greetings from Bremen,   
      
   Daniel Krügler   
      
      
      
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