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From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
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Subject: Re: WANTED:  Brian Stroustrup's  THE C++ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
Keywords: C++, Stroustrup
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Date: 5 Nov 90 19:30:28 GMT
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In article <1990Nov3.090149.20587@techbook.com>, jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:
> In article <1990Nov01.220407.7544@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> sinclair@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (David A Sinclair) writes:
> >Hi!  I am looking for a used copy of Brian Stroustrup's
> >THE C++ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE (1990).

You probably mean "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual", by Margaret Ellis and
Bjarne Stroustrup.  This book is a valuable reference, not an easy book for
beginners. (since he said 1990, he probably heard that the '85 book was
outdated and there is a new one.  This is the new one).

> Try looking for _The C++ Programming Language_ by Bjarne Stroustrup, published
> by Addison-Wesley.  Seems like the original copyright was '85, though it's been
> reprinted several times.  

NO! NO! NO!

Do NOT buy that book unless you're interested in the historical development of
the language.  That book describes version 1.0 of the language and is thoroughly
outdated.  If you learn the language from that book, you'll need to unlearn.

--
Joe Buck
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