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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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As far as I recall from reading an interview with Stepanov, Stroustup was
personally involved in trying to get consensus for the STL, when many on the
standard board were afraid of the magnitude of the changes.

Ehud