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Introduction



The STL ( Standard Template Library) is a set of C++ classes and functions that implement common data structures and algorithms. They are usually based on templates to allow generic use. The classes and functions are not the core language features but classes and functions that were written using the existing C++ features. It was integrated into the language in 1998