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I keep seeing reference to both the C++ standard Library and the C++ Standard Template Library (STL). What is the difference between them? Wikipedia mentions that they share some headers but that's about it.
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Standard Template Library in C++As a programmer one has to make sure to store data in such a way, that the retrieval and manipulations become easy to resolve this is called a Standard Template Library (STL).
The Standard Template Library, or STL, is a C++ library of container classes, algorithms, and iterators; it provides many of the basic algorithms and data structures of computer science. The STL is a generic library, meaning that its components are heavily parameterized: almost every component in the STL is a template.
In layman words: STL is part of Standard Library.
Most standard libraries include definitions for at least the following commonly used facilities: Algorithms (such as sorting algorithms) Data structures (such as lists, trees, and hash tables) Interaction with the host platform, including input/output and operating system calls.
The Standard Template Library (STL) is a library of containers, iterators, algorithms, and function objects, that was created by Alexander Stepanov; the SGI website has the canonical implementation and documentation.
The standard library is the library that is part of C++; it includes most of the Standard Template Library (STL).
In common usage, "STL" is also used to refer to the parts of the C++ standard library that come from or are derived from the actual SGI STL. For example, people often use "STL" to refer to std::vector and the rest of the containers in the C++ standard library, since they originated in the SGI STL.
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