[Dev] STL

[Tanner Lovelace]

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On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 23:53, M. Mueller/bhu5nji wrote:
> I did a stare and compare of the Josuttis book (copyright 1999 $49) and t=
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> Musser et al 2nd. Ed. (copyright 2001 $44) at my local Borders.  They wer=
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> quite similar.  I opted to the Musser book for 4 reasons: 1) more recent=20
> copyright, 2) Musser is professionally close to Stepanov, 3) Addison Wesl=
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> Professional Computing Series have been good choices in the past, and 4) =
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> reference material was slightly more verbose.  I felt a bit rebellious si=
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> Amazon reviews were similar in nature to the one above.

There's a reason the reviews are like that. :-)  Like I said, however,
I haven't seen Musser 2nd ed. so it could be just as good.  I know
that the 1st edition is considered the seminal work...

Don't discount Josuttis too much though.  I belive he was one the
committee that worked on standardizing the STL.  This, to me, counts
for more since the STL has changed considerably since Stepanov
first introduced it (for the better of course:).

> I also recall that GLIB is covered by the GPL and the C++ Stand Library i=
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> covered by the LGPL.  As I am developing a commercial application, the LG=
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> is more attractive to me as well.

No, glib is LGPL.  STL, however, being part of the standard
C++ library, is available under whatever kind of license you
want.  In fact, if your C++ compiler doesn't include it, it's
not a (standards compliant) C++ compiler. :-)

Tanner
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