Writing your own C++ Standard Library implementation...
Have any of your older, more experienced programmers known of anyone who's taken on this task to write their own implementation of the C++ Standard Library? I know many young programmers write compilers, but I assume that means they just write the parsing and converting to assembly parts and they use pre-made implementations to the Standard Library. So has anyone embarked, or known someone who embarks, on this tedious quest? Surely, the real experienced programmers have known some cocky programmers in the past that insisted they could write more efficient implementations... it's just a matter of if they put their money where their mouth is.