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From: Barry Kelly <dynagen@eircom.net>
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In article <9rjsak$bp3$1@nh.pace.co.uk>
	"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
wrote:

> How exactly did STL get into C++?

Stepanov wrote a generic library (initially in Ada 83, IIRC), then
wrote a new one for C++. Somebody (I can't remember who exactly) asked
if he'd considered trying to get it accepted as a standard library
addition proposal. It was late in the standardization cycle; he got
support of many of the key members, and he rewrote the documentation
to get it up to standardese standard, as it were.

The story is someplace on the net; doubtless a little searching will
turn it up.

-- Barry