Preface

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!

Epistles, I, iiHORACE

This book is for C++ programmers who are frustrated with some of the limitations of the standard C++ library. The book is a tutorial and reference for the library described in the first C++ Library Technical Report, which was approved in 2006 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).[1] This library, which I’ll call the TR1 library, isn’t part of the C++ Standard. The TR is only “an informative document,” but you can expect to see the library shipped with some compilers and provided as an add-on library from various library vendors. You can also expect to see many of its components incorporated into the standard library in the next C++ standard. ...

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