[Cs3] STL vs. object-oriented programming

Mikhail Nesterenko mikhail at cs.kent.edu
Wed Sep 14 17:23:12 EDT 2016


CS3 students,

This is after today's mention strained relation between STL and
object-orientedness in C++. Here is an article in stackoverflow
discussing why STL is build based on templates rather than OO
paradigms.

   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1039853/why-is-the-c-stl-is-so-heavily-based-on-templates-and-not-on-interfaces

Thanks,
-- 
Mikhail


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