Re: c++ documentation

From: Chris Croughton (chris_at_keristor.net)
Date: 05/12/05 

Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 21:55:28 +0100

On Thu, 12 May 2005 13:27:14 -0500, Last2Know
   <grokkalot@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 3. Advanced Language Learning:
>
> Bjarne Stroustrup: The C++ Programming Language

You need the latest edition, after the standard came out (I have the 3rd
edition which came out just before the standard, and there are a number
of differences).

> 4. Standard Library Learning:
>
> Nicolai Josuttis: The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Refernce

For advanced library (STL) stuff he's the best I've found. I have that
book and he makes even some of the weirder things understandable (that
book was the first time I understood how to write I/O stream classes
derived from the standard ones, as well as the localisation interfaces).

> 5. Standard Library Reference:
>
> http://www.dinkum.com/libraries_ref.html

By, among others, P. J. Plauger who designed a lot of the C and C++
libraries.

For the serious C++ programmer those three are pretty essential in my
view.

Chris C

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