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by programmer_man 3804 days ago
It probably means that it was written before we had a complete and correct implementation of the STL on all major compilers.

Google around for Visual Studio 6 STL, and take into account the fact that most organizations don't upgrade right away, and you're looking at at least 2005 before you could rely on the STL cross-platform. Maybe much later.