Я всё понял!

Как известно STL написал некий А. Степанов. Наверняка, он просто-напросто советский/российский агент, отлично выполнивший поставленную задачу подорвать западную компьютерную индустрию. И как это никто раньше не догадался.

Правда, в России ведь тоже пользуются STL, но, наверное, это проходит как неизбежные потери.

Я всё понял! (продолжение)

Отрывки из интервью с Александром Степановым:

• "In 1976, still back in the USSR, I got a very serious case of food poisoning from eating raw fish. While in the hospital, in the state of delirium, I suddenly realized that the ability to add numbers in parallel depends on the fact that addition is associative. (So, putting it simply, STL is the result of a bacterial infection.) "
• "Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people."
• "For example, I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used. "
• "I do have a lot of gray hair as a result of trying to compile STL. The unfortunate reality is that a lot of code in the present implementation of STL is suboptimal because of the compiler limitations and bugs of the compilers I had to use when I was developing STL."