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- From: gldnspud@kali.nas.com (Matt Scott)
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- Subject: Re: STL
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 23:56:13 GMT
- Organization: Everyone's Software
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- tangent@cyberport.com (Warren Young) wrote:
-
- >>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.
-
- Yes, I liked that aspect of it, too. Some of the stuff I ignored (like
- how lists allocate memory -- I'm saving that section for when I get
- some time to sit alone with the book and read it thoroughly), but at
- least he structured the book in such a way that it was easy to tell
- which parts are superfluous if you just want a general view of the STL
- for the time being.
-
- >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.
-
- It may be viewed by some as the ``competition'', but with most good
- programming books, it is good to have more than one book on the same
- subject. I'm sure that other books explore the STL in ways that Nelson
- had inadvertently missed, and vice versa.
-
- I'm still glad I got Nelson's book, though, and it'll probably be one
- of those books that hardly ever touches my shelf -- it'll always be on
- the desk, opened to some page! ;)
-
- -Matt
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