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From: drs@bnlux0.bnl.gov (David R. Stampf)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Does C++ deserve its name? Also: Books
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Date: 20 Jan 90 02:04:00 GMT
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In article <1990Jan19.153233.27884@ICS.COM> david@ics.ics.COM (David B. Lewis) writes:
>Do people have opinions on the new Dewey/Starkhurst book (or other books)
>as a good tutorial and pseudo-reference manual for C programmers? 

	I think the book is a wonderful tutorial (even for self teaching) but
it is a rather poor reference -- no table of operator precedence for example.
I'll be teaching a C++ course here in a couple of months, and I will use that
book and Bjarne's for a reference work.

	< dave