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		pagekalisedown on Feb 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your favourite programming language is not good en... If you can't use Boost and STL, you're C++'ing in the stone age.

georgieporgie on Feb 24, 2012 [–]

Yep. Yet until fairly recently, many people were still distrustful of STL due to the various implementations and the godawful compiler errors. As for Boost, at my last company, I had to stage a long battle in order to get even a minimal portion of Boost into our product.

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