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> You could write a new set of libraries (probably working from the FSF
> compilers) but that would be a large task (mammoth if you started from
> scratch, and moreover a moving target).

Well I was more talking hypothetically, I certainly have no urge to do 
that. I just recently dropped a huge proprietary library we were using 
for 10 years or so in order to move to STL for the first time and I 
appreciate the power these libraries offer over smaller proprietary ones.



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