[dom0]

"the" STL?

[iherbig]

STL means "standard template library." It's perfectly reasonable to say "the standard template library."

[FlorianRappl]

I think the author just wanted to point out that "the" STL is not valid / accurate here; while the interface and behavior is defined, the implementation is afaik still vendor specific, e.g., the implementation in GCC may be different from the one provided by Microsoft.

[fooker]

There are several compatible and competing implementations of the C++ standard library.