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- From: Maker@cris.com (Rodney Gau)
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- Subject: Re: Need advice on book...
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 23:39:33 GMT
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- : Avinash Meetoo (ameetoo@ifhamy.insa-lyon.fr) wrote:
- : : Hi,
-
- : : I want to buy a good reference book on C++. I need some advice.
-
- : : What do you folks out there think of "The C Programming Language
- : : (2nd edition)" by BS? It is an expensive book and if ever I can get
-
- You mean C++...? I started reading through this book and found it to be an
- excrutiatingly accurate reference on C++ syntax. It's also, unfortunately,
- written in a style that's dry enough to quite easily choke a horse. As a
- reference book I'd recommend it, but not as a learning tool.
-
- I returned it because I wanted not just a mere reference book, but more of
- a primer/reference, so I'm using Stanley Lippman's C++ Primer now
- instead...a much more palattable read, if you care about that.
-
-
- --Rod
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