1.1 Welcome

Congratulations on choosing the Rogue Wave implementation of the Standard C++ Library. You can use this product with confidence: it is based on the final standard for the C++ language and library ratified in March, 1998, by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the International Standards Organization (ISO).

Since its development by Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup in the 80s, the C++ language has been widely used by professional programmers for the world's big, complex applications in telecommunications, finance, business, embedded systems, and computer-aided design. The final standardization of the C++ library now makes it easier to learn C++ and to use it across a wide variety of platforms.

Standardization improves portability and stability. You can build reliable applications faster, and maintain them with less cost and effort, using the Standard C++ Library.

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