On 19/08/06, Noctaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure I'm sounding a bit dense here, so bear with me. > > > No, since it was written after the standard was published. Remember > > you're learning a language, which is an abstraction, not an operating > > system. The standard library remained the same since. > > But in 7 years there's been substantial additions to the library, correct? > Wouldn't it be more prudent to learn from a more modern source, considering > that features in newer versions of the Windows OS take advantage of these > later libraries?
You are confusing the OS specific libraries and the standard library. The standard template library (abbreviated as STL) is uniform across all conforming compilers. It had no additions in the past years, in fact, the compiler support has been lagging, meaning there are very few (maybe none?) compilers that can be called 100% conformant, though they're working on it constantly. -- Tamas Marki - http://toma.dotgeek.org To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
