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- From: bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: c++ & c+++
- Summary: books
- Message-ID: <24119@alice.att.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 13:40:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.24119
- References: <1992Nov8.222637.5773@nmsu.edu> <1992Nov8.235940.1@vax1.bham.ac.uk>
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- mccauleyba@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley @ University of Birmingham) writes
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- > In article <1992Nov8.222637.5773@nmsu.edu>, willittl@spock.NMSU.Edu (William Little) writes:
- > > The books I bought were for beginners, and didn't tell me
- > > much. I went through them in a couple hours, and came up
- > > with some questions in areas they didn't cover.
- >
- > Get the ARM (Annotated reference manual) I've never seen it but
- > everyone else sears by it! (I use "The C++ Prog.Lang.Edn.2" also by
- > the man himself which is probably not quite as good).
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- Depends what you need. The ARM and "The C++ Prog.Lang.Edn.2" cover the same
- language (C++ including templates and exception handling) from two different
- perspectives. They both contain the same reference manual.
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- The ARM is for language laywers and implementors and focusses on language
- details and implementation techniques. Trying to learn C++ from the ARM is
- a mistake; it would be like trying to learn English from a dictionary.
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- "The C++ Prog.Lang.Edn.2," on the other hand, tries to explain C++ programming
- and design techniques. It is tutorial. Where it explains language features
- it does so from the point of view of a user rather than an implementor.
- I have been told that it is not only more comprehensive than the 1st edition
- but also much easier to read.
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- I think the quality is about the same. Both have their place.
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