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- From: dodd@dodd.UUCP (Mike Dodd)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Numerical Recipes in C++?
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- Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 19:00:47 GMT
- References: <SINAI.92Aug11105913@biltong.sono.uucp> <xeno.713564280@pv6f05.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- In article <MATT.92Sep8111708@physics2.berkeley.edu>, Matt Austern writes:
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- > In article <1992Sep1.124716.29134@eua.ericsson.se> euamts@eua.ericsson.se (Mats Henricson) writes:
- >
- > > >NR in C++ is due within a few months.
- > >
- > > This pisses me off considerbly!! I had my local computer bookstore
- > > call Cambridge University Press to ask them if they had a C++ version
- > > coming up, and they replied NO. So, I bought the C-version. Now I have
- > > to put up even more cash when the new version comes, and I tell you,
- > > the book isn't cheap...
- >
- > The real question: will _Numerical Recipes in C++_ really be in C++,
- > or just in C with a few extras? That is: will it really be a book
- > about object-oriented numerical programming?
- >
- My understanding is that it will not be released. This according to a
- previous poster.
-
- IMHO it would not be worth it. The book as it is now is fine for
- plug-in programming, exactly as the title expresses numerical RECIPES in
- C. Do not use the coding examples as C examples of how to handle the
- task best in that language, but as your assurance that the code REALLY
- works. A line by line analysis can be a 'mind-wrenching' experience. It
- is basically a machine-like translation from the FORTRAN text.
-
- Numerical Recipes in C is worth every penny. READ IT. Don't try to
- understand every line of code, get the NUMERICAL RECEIPES Example Book
- ISBN 0-521-35746-2 as well and try out the examples, this is where you
- can play with the code a bit. (no pun)
-
- IMHO the biggest benefit from C++ is that C is still alive and all those
- books, and examples are too. It is not like switching to ADA for instance
- where you are for the most part starting from scratch.
-
- Again, this is just IN MY HUMBLE OPINION. I realize the benefits gained from
- a complete rewrite, it is just that I don't believe it will happen, and if
- it did it would most likely NOT take advantage of all of the best aspects
- of C++ anyway. I am just trying to stop someone from causing themselves
- great damage to their posterior region :-) when in fact they made a proper
- decision to purchase a fine book.
-
- -Mike
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