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From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
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Subject: Re: A C++ Standard Bookshelf
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Date: 26 Nov 90 20:26:13 GMT
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In article <59242@microsoft.UUCP>, jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
> 
> 		A Short List of Preferred C++ Texts

which is a very good list.  One small correction though:

|> The C++ Programming Language, Stroustrup, Addison Wesley 1986, 0-201-12078-X
|> 	The historical reference of where the language is coming from,
|> 	and the way C++ compilers used to behave circa release "1.2"
|> 	Please use Stroustrup's newer text above to answer fine grain
|> 	details about what the language is suppose to be! [until this
|> 	text can be updated.]

No, this book describes version 1.0, not 1.2.  In particular,
the "protected" keyword is not described, because it did not yet exist.
Unless you're a language historian, you should avoid this book; it
recommends certain hacks that no longer work and I then have to
"deprogram" people who have read it. :-)

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Joe Buck
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