Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!duttnph!leo From: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Gorlen's New Book Message-ID: Date: 13 Sep 90 10:31:18 GMT References: <57379@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@dutrun.UUCP Reply-To: leo@duttnph.tudelft.nl Lines: 37 jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes: >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. So am I. >It should appeal to >people who have read a book or two on C++ already -- this book covers a lot >of ground quickly. As someone who belongs to that category, I can completely agree with this. The book skips exactly those things I already know by now, and focuses on those aspects of C++ that go beyond 'learning the language'. >You'll want to have a copy of the NIHCL libraries >available as you read it. But it isn't really necessary. The book is just as valuable without it. >Highly recommended, based on my preliminary scannings, this will be one >of my favorite C++ books. Same here. I would like to note again though that this is *not* a 'How To Learn C++' book. For that I use Lipmann's 'C++ Primer' and together these two books will form all the reference material I need for the moment. -- Leo Breebaart (leo @ duttnph.tudelft.nl)