Path: utzoo!yunexus!hydroesm!jtsv16!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!microsoft!jimad From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: AT&T C++ v 2.0 : best documentation ? Message-ID: <54930@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 29 May 90 23:27:00 GMT Article-I.D.: microsof.54930 References: Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) Distribution: comp Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 38 Its hard to get good, up-to-date accurate references to C++. The following is a list in terms of decreasing hardcore-ness for people who want very serious references to the intimate details of the language. Actually getting the first couple of these references may prove problematic. --The Annotated C++ Reference Manual Margaret Ellis & Bjarne Stroustrup Addison-Wesley 1990 [in pre-release] This manual corresponds to about version 2.1 of the language -- so you're unlikely to find a compiler closely corresponding to it yet. Parts of this manual are about as exciting as reading the obits, only die-hard language lawyers need apply. Also known as the illuminated bible. --The ANSI committee working document The Ellis & Stroustrup text with the annotations stripped out is the committee's starting point -- so presumably there should be some way of getting this document. Also known as the bible. -- C++ Language System Release 2.0 Product Reference Manual Select Code 307-146. Available through AT&T un*x support, I believe. This has been around for a year or two, and thus is presumably what most current compilers most closely correspond to. Also known as the ugly red book. -- A C++ Primer Stanley Lippman Addison-Wesley 1989 ISBN 0-201-16487-6 A very accurate text based on 2.0, Lippman is the most widely available C++ book [at least in Seattle bookstores] and the most commonly recommended. This is the only text I've found that comes close to covering all useful C++ features. A big blue book.