got the book "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual " yesterday
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last week I ordered a used book from Amazon: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual. I reviewed few topics and felt it is really a great book still. I wonder if I still need to go through it in my spare time....
diligent hands rule....
My 1990 (1st?) edition is within arms length. Happy reading!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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My 1990 (1st?) edition is within arms length. Happy reading!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
it is 1996 version. that link is not right...
diligent hands rule....
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last week I ordered a used book from Amazon: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual. I reviewed few topics and felt it is really a great book still. I wonder if I still need to go through it in my spare time....
diligent hands rule....
Why buy such an old book to read? Most probably some of the contents do not apply to modern C++ syntax and compiler.
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Why buy such an old book to read? Most probably some of the contents do not apply to modern C++ syntax and compiler.
You are correct - C++20 departed a lot from Stroustroup's vision, but it is still a good book for learning how he envisioned it would work, and some of the principles he outlines are important even to today's C++ programmers. I would say that it is still a book well worth reading.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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last week I ordered a used book from Amazon: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual. I reviewed few topics and felt it is really a great book still. I wonder if I still need to go through it in my spare time....
diligent hands rule....
Greetings I read Mr. Stroustrup's C++ text some years ago I have yet to figure out the language it was written in His presentation seems to me convoluted He speaks at length on topics without stating the topic until he is done speaking on the topic On other occasions as best I recall he delves into Quantum Mechanics when all I wish to learn at that point is how to add two and two I would rather eat glass than read it again The model of a language text is in my humble opinion that of Harbison and Steele for C - Cheerio My sympathies for the SPAM moderator
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Greetings I read Mr. Stroustrup's C++ text some years ago I have yet to figure out the language it was written in His presentation seems to me convoluted He speaks at length on topics without stating the topic until he is done speaking on the topic On other occasions as best I recall he delves into Quantum Mechanics when all I wish to learn at that point is how to add two and two I would rather eat glass than read it again The model of a language text is in my humble opinion that of Harbison and Steele for C - Cheerio My sympathies for the SPAM moderator
on few concepts, I got deep understanding: it's genesis in the Bible...
diligent hands rule....
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You are correct - C++20 departed a lot from Stroustroup's vision, but it is still a good book for learning how he envisioned it would work, and some of the principles he outlines are important even to today's C++ programmers. I would say that it is still a book well worth reading.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
knowing its history can bring understanding to its beginning and future...
diligent hands rule....
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Why buy such an old book to read? Most probably some of the contents do not apply to modern C++ syntax and compiler.
Because there are many C++ environments where it will be a very long time before C++20 is supported, if at all. Knowing language basics is essential, and this book describes those basics very well indeed.
Software Zen:
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knowing its history can bring understanding to its beginning and future...
diligent hands rule....
Then you should also get [Design and Evolution of C++](https://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/dp/0201543303) if you still haven't .
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Then you should also get [Design and Evolution of C++](https://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/dp/0201543303) if you still haven't .
thanks for this great link! I will get one copy of it.
diligent hands rule....