The SPL Deserves Some Reiteration Submitted by Matthew Turland on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 12:55 While I was in college for computer science, where the preferred academic language was C++, I came into contact with the STL (Standard Template Library). You can read more about that in this interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, but its intended purpose was pretty simple: to provide standard optimized implementat