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From: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Gorlen's New Book
Message-ID: <57379@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 90 23:07:46 GMT
Reply-To: jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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I just got done scanning a copy of Gorlen's long promised:

"Data Abstraction and Object-Oriented Programming in C++"
Gorlen, Orlow, & Plexico
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester England 1990
ISBN 0 471 92346 X pbk
     0 471 92751 1

and I have to admit I'm quite impressed by the book.  I think it makes for
a good, practical look at programming in C++.  Whether one particularly
likes the Smalltalk approach to libraries or not, I think there is much
real world knowledge to be gleamed from this book.  It should appeal to
people who have read a book or two on C++ already -- this book covers a lot
of ground quickly.  Its written at a level maybe one step easier to read
than C++ proceedings, make that two steps easier to read than E&S.

I think most people can pick up some more "tricks of the trade" by reading
this book -- in particular it covers ADTs and "OOP in C++" as good or
better than any C++ book I've read.  The coding style and conventions are
easy to read, etc.  You'll want to have a copy of the NIHCL libraries
available as you read it.

Highly recommended, based on my preliminary scannings, this will be one
of my favorite C++ books.