after some years in Java and C# now I'm back to C++. Of course my programming style is influenced by those languages and I tend to feel the need of a special component that I used massively: the HASH MAP. In STL there is the hash_map, that GCC says it's deprecated and I should use unordered_map. So I turned to it. I confess I'm not sure of the portability of what I am doing as I had to use a compiler switch to turn on the feature -std=c++0x that is of the upcoming standard. Anyway I'm happy with this. As long as I can't get it working since if I put in my class after some years in Java and C# now I'm back to