whoa, I didn't mean to have some debate.
I use STL because I never made a list tool of my own. It just so happens that I stumbled upon STL before I decided to make one. Why make your own if they already have one.
The only thing that sucks about STL is it's hard to debug it, just like DirectX. That's all I can say.
Ok so fopen/STL might not work, I won't risk using those then...