Comment Comment by groby_b A large number of those came only usefully into existence in 1998, with C++98string & vector types: STL, 1998 type conversion operators: 1998. mutable keyword: 1998. collection library: STL, 1998. smart pointers: STL, auto_ptr<> in C++98I'd argue that without STL & C++98, C++ would've languished even longer. And with STL, it still took another 5 years for the compilers to be good enough. parent groby_b 5 years ago
string & vector types: STL, 1998 type conversion operators: 1998. mutable keyword: 1998. collection library: STL, 1998. smart pointers: STL, auto_ptr<> in C++98
I'd argue that without STL & C++98, C++ would've languished even longer. And with STL, it still took another 5 years for the compilers to be good enough.