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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: C++ design (actually: Textbooks)
Keywords: information
Message-ID: <9497@alice.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 89 14:47:58 GMT
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In article <1271@ethz.UUCP>, marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti) writes:

> > 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 have not read the Pohl or Berry books, do not know the authors,
and therefore have no opinion of them, good or bad.

I have carefully read an early draft of Lippman's book.  That
draft gives me every reason to believe that the final version
(which I have not yet read) will be first-rate.

I haven't read Dewhurst and Stark yet, but I've seen other work
by them; on that basis I would expect their book to be first-rate
as well.

I believe Dewhurst and Stark assumes that you already know C well;
Lippman assumes that you know something about programming but not
necessarily C.  Lippman is definitely based on C++ 2.0; I assume
Dewhurst and Stark also used it as their basis.

Lippman's book is more than twice the size of Dewhurst and Stark's;
that will bias some people toward one and some toward the other.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com