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- From: kuehl@uzwil.informatik.uni-konstanz.de (Dietmar Kuehl)
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- Subject: Re: Definitive "streams" definition - books, where?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 11:43:30 GMT
- Organization: FakultΣt fⁿr Mathematik und Informatik
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- Hi,
- Brian Leach (lasbfl@aai.arco.com) wrote:
- : John P. Atkinson wrote:
- : > Teale, Steve (1993), C++ IOStreams Handbook, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.
- : >
- : > I haven't bought this one yet. If you get it, let me know what you think.
-
- I don't like it very much...
-
- : I have this book and have read through it several times
- : and still don't understand the topic. It is not well
- : organized as a reference, but I have not found any
- : alternative.
-
- ... although I have understood the topic from this book and the DWP. I
- found that "The (Draft) Standard C++ Library", P.J.Plauger,
- Prentice-Hall, is quite helpfull, especially for the IOstreams part.
- However, it is partially not very close to the actual definition found
- in the current DWP but it still describes what is going on in
- principle. The DWP IS the definite definition of the IOstreams library
- but it is not very readable...
- --
- dietmar.kuehl@uni-konstanz.de
- http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/~kuehl/
- I am a realistic optimist - that's why I appear to be slightly pessimistic
-