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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ design (actually: Textbooks)
Summary: reviews, opinions, ramblings and musings on C++ textbooks solicited
Keywords: information
Message-ID: <1271@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 09:21:39 GMT
References: <9474@alice.UUCP>
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In article <9474@alice.UUCP>, bs@alice.UUCP (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes:
> Should any of this increase your interest to the point where reading a
> textbook seems worth the effort here is a selection (in chronological order
> more or less):
> [ ... ]
> Berry, John: "The Waite Group's C++ Programming"  [ ... ]
> Pohl, Ira: "C++ for C Programmers"  [ ... ]
> Dewhurst, Steve and Stark, Kathy: "Programming in C++"  [ ... ]
> Lippman, Stan: "A C++ Primer"  [ ... ]
> [ ... ]

Can anybody out there provide further info on any of these books?
I am especially interested in how they cover the issue of object-
orientation in C++, for example, different approaches to set up
class hierarchies for various uses (tradeoffs in building container
classes comes to mind).  I'd also like to know which of these books
are based on release 2.0 of C++.

Of course, I'd especially appreciate the opinions of Bjarne Stroustrup,
Andy Koenig and others involved with the C++ design and implementation
efforts, but they may be wary of antagonizing the respective authors ...

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