There is also an augment for "reinventing the wheel". Aside from the experience and insight you'll get, simply jumping on the latest glib,stl,GC, or whatever bandwagon can have unintended consequences. There is always a price to be paid for overly generic code, usually performance and memory usage. The classic "simple" example is using "strcmp" to test if two strings are not equal. Almost any first year CS student could write a more efficient function. All these libs are a wonderful help, but one should be careful if your code has performance and/or memory constraints. This is especially true when you go to "managed" code. Garbage collection is not cheap.
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