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		arthuryip on July 4, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MaXX Interactive Desktop: A Re-Implementation of t... > If you program C++ then STL comes from SGI. Didn't STL came from HP?

pjmlp on July 5, 2020 [–]

HP was one of the implementations pre-C++98 approval, but SGI also had their own, and they used to host the original documentation.

On the early days of the Web, and pre C++98, it was where most of us would read how to use the existing STL implementations.

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