Download or read book Generic Programming and the STL written by Matthew H. Austern and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 1999 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces programmers to the generic programming paradigm and to the C++ Standard Template Library and its use as an extensible framework for generic and interoperable components. Explains ideas underlying generic programming and shows how to create algorithms decoupled from the types and data structures they operate on, and how to write more efficient code that can be used and reused across platforms. Assumes familiarity with C++ and algorithms. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR