Generic Programming and the STL: Using and Extending the C++ Standard Template Library

Austern's book introduces you to the generic programming paradigm and to the most important instance of that paradigm--the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). This book reveals that the STL is more than a set of convenient container classes: It is also an extensible framework for generic and interoperable components. Austern explains the central ideas underlying generic programming--concepts, modeling, and refinement--and shows how these ideas lead to the fundamental concepts of the STL: iterators, containers, and function objects.

Matthew H. Austern, PhD, studied at MIT and UC Berkeley. He now works in the Silicon Graphics compiler group, where he is one of the principal authors of SGI's implementation of the C++ Standard Template Library. Dr. Austern is also a contributor to Dr. Dobb's Journal and C++ Report, a moderator of the newsgroup comp.std.c++, and an active member of the ISO/ANSI C++ Standards Committee.

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