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Internet Resources

The Internet is a huge source of information regarding the topic of this book. Here is a list of my recommendations of sites where you could find additional, relevant information.

Where You Can Get the Standard

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) sells the C++ standard in the United States. At the time this book was written, you could get the C++ standard at the Electronics Standard Store of ANSI for $18 (US) at the following site:

http://www.ansi.org/

Newsgroups

The following newsgroups discuss C++, the standard, and the C++ standard library:

• General aspects of C++ (unmoderated)

     comp.lang.c++
  

• General aspects of C++ (moderated)

     comp.lang.c++.moderated
  

• Aspects of the C++ standard (moderated)

     comp.std.c++
  

  For more information about this newsgroup see

  http://reality.sgi.com/austern/std-c++/faq.html

Internet Addresses/URLs

This section lists links that provide additional related informations regarding the C++ standard library and the STL. However, books might have a longer life than Internet sites, and the links listed here may be not valid in the future. Therefore, I will provide the actual list of links for this book at the following site (and I expect my site to be stable):

http://www.josuttis.com/1ibbook/

The following links refer to issues of the whole C++ standard library:

• FAQs (frequently asked questions) about the standardization of C++:

  http://reality.sgi.com/austern/std-c++/faq.html

• The official home page of ISO working group for the standardization of C++

  http://www.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc22/wg21/

• The Dinkum C++ Library Reference

  http://www.dinkumware.com/refxcpp.html

• The C++ standard library implementation for the EGCS C++ compiler

  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/1ibstdc++/

• The EGCS C++ compiler

  http://egcs.cygnus.com/

• The Boost repository for free, peer-reviewed C++ libraries

  http://www.boost.org/

• Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing

  http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/

The following links refer to issues of the STL:

• The freely available STL implementation by SGI

  http://www.sgi.com/Technology/STL/

• STLport for several platforms

  http://www.stlport.org/

• Mumit's STL Newbie Guide

  http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/stl/STL.newbie.html

• David Musser's STL site

  http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~musser/stl.html

• STL FAQs

  ftp://butler.hpl.hp.com/stl/stl.faq

• Safe STL by Cay Horstmann

  http://www.horstmann.com/safestl.html

• Warren Young's STL Resource List

  http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/programming/stl/resources.html

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