I don't really think so. In making my own containers, I would even try to make those compatible with the STL because the power of the generic algorithms is too great to give up. The STL should at least be nominally used, even if all you do is write your own container and specialize every algorithm for it. That way, every sorting algorithm can be invoked sort(c.begin(), c.end()). If you specialize sort to have the same effect, even if it works differently.
