Re: [GD-General] Eiffel

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

At 10:08 AM 12/21/2001 -0500, Thatcher Ulrich wrote:
>but IMHO the STL stinks as far as usability goes.

THANK you for saying that.  I'm so tired of people going on and on about 
how great STL is (it's probably the #1 validation of C++ and templates I've 
seen), when in fact IT'S NOT THAT GOOD.  It's convoluted, difficult to 
debug, has bizarre syntax, takes forever to compile, generates tons of 
warnings, requires third party implementations for stability.  The only 
reason people dig on it is that they didn't have to write it.

Someone should sift through the STL source code some time then come back 
and tell me it's GOOD.

The primary advantage is that if you need a List or a Map you can just use 
STL without having to reroll it, but since I have that stuff lying around 
anyway, it doesn't bother me.

Brian