title: documentation for STL
body: <p>I have spent the last several years fighting tooth and nail to avoid working with C++ so I'm probably one of a very small number of people who likes systems programming and template meta programming but has absolutely no experience when it comes to the STL and very little C++ template experience.</p>
  
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  <li><em>Does anyone know of a good document for getting started using STL?</em></li>
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  <p>I'd prefer PDF or something else I can kill trees with and I'm looking for something more along the lines of a reference than a tutorial (although an 80/20 split would be nice there).</p>
  
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  <p>I ended up using the docs from <a href="http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/ms-brlnd.zip" rel="noreferrer">here</a>, pringing them out via a PDF driver and tacking them together with <a href="http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php?censor=y" rel="noreferrer">this idea</a>. Now I'm off to print them off 2-up double sided (190 pages even so, but I have >1k pages in my quota and only 4 months till graduation).</p>