[hellofunk]

The author of the first STL has famously said that, even after all these decades, he has never written any C++ code that uses OO inheritance, because he hasn't found a use for it.

The STL is mainly a generic library, not an OO library.

[gpderetta]

Yes, Stepanov is not exactly an OO fan. This interview with him, were he declared that "OO is an Hoax", is great:

http://www.stlport.org/resources/StepanovUSA.html