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- From: lewis@sophists.com (Lewis G. Pringle)
- Subject: Re: Algorithms in C++ (was: text compression)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.075339.5023@sophists.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 07:53:39 GMT
- References: <ksand-040992183535@wintermute.apple.com> <D88-JWA.92Sep7111945@dront.nada.kth.se> <18j1kaINNhqd@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <18j1kaINNhqd@agate.berkeley.edu> John Werner <werner@soe.berkeley.edu> writes:
- >
- >
- >In article <ksand-040992183535@wintermute.apple.com> Kent Sandvik,
- >ksand@apple.com writes:
- >>For instance the new "Algorithsm in C++" by Sedgewick has a code
- >>snippet showing how it's done.
- >
- >Is this book any good? I liked the original "Algorithms", but
- >didn't like "Algorithms in C". The examples hadn't been rewritten
- >in C; the old Pascal examples had just been transliterated into C,
- >making them look fairly awkward. Did he do it right this time?
- >
- I would say the book is reasonably good, but if you've read the original,
- your done here. The C, and C++ versions are very light reworkings for
- those languages. Humerously, there are even some comments about limitations
- of C++ that are really limitations of Pascal - the book was mostly rewritten
- with sed :-).
-
- The examples are generally in C++ syntax but there is NO consideration of
- using classes to encapsulate nor other C++ specific design techniques.
-
- Lewis.
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