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- From: tangent@cyberport.com (Warren Young)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: STL
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 22:09:50 GMT
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- gldnspud@kali.nas.com (Matt Scott) wrote:
-
- >tangent@cyberport.com (Warren Young) wrote:
- >
- >>A good book on the subject (and one that will answer many more FAQs
- >>for you) is Mark Nelson's (?) STL book from IDG Books. Sorry, no more
- >>info than that because the book's at work and I'm not.
- >
- >That book is indeed a good read and it's what got me going with the
- >whole STL paradigm.
-
- What struck me about it was that it wasn't _just_ a tutorial. Instead
- of just telling you how to use it, the book actually _explored_ STL,
- providing the code and spec for it in the book. More importantly, STL
- code snippets are scattered throughout the book with explanations.
- Also, he goes to some lengths to explain internal workings, and to
- benchmark the classes so that you know, _specifically_ how each of the
- similar classes differs from each other.
-
- I wonder, would anyone like to give a micro-review of the other major
- STL book (the one coauthored by Dave Musser, I think)? Not having
- seen it, I can only state that Nelson's book is excellent. I'd like
- to be able to recommend the _best_ book, though, and I can't do that
- if I don't know anything about the competition.
-
- = Warren --
-