Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool2.mu.edu!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!extro!dpg From: dpg@extro.ucc.su.oz.au (D P Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: ARM - where and when? Message-ID: Date: 9 Jan 91 11:49:16 GMT References: <1991Jan7.180831.8592@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> <11773@alice.att.com> Sender: news@metro.ucc.su.OZ.AU Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia Lines: 36 Nntp-Posting-Host: extro.ucc.su.oz.au bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup) writes: >d7stfax@dtek.chalmers.se (Stefan Axelsson @ Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.) writes > > Title says most of it, where do we get ARM, and when do we do it? We > > remember vaguely hearing that there's a new edition around early this > > year, did we hear it right? > > > Please note that we are based in Europe. >You should have been able to get a copy of the ARM from or through your >local bookstore at any time since May'90. When I lived in Denmark, I ordered >all my major books from an English bookstore, though, to avoid getting hit >by the delays and exhorbitant prices imposed by the local academic >bookstores. You might consider doing something similar. I found that >even after paying air mails, shipping fees, and insurance I came out >ahead. For a poor student the difference was significant. >The reference is: > Ellis&Stroustrup: The Annotated C++ Reference Manual > Addison-Wesley, 1990 > ISBN 0-201-51459-1 >There is no new edition done or planned. There have been several new >printings already and some minor corrections have been made. As ever, >I have posted such errata to the net to ensure that (given the errata) >all printings are equivalent. I'll post or mail the errata on request. Lest Bjarne shortchange his homeland, DTH (Danish Technical "High School") in Copenhagen was selling the ARM at a quite reasonable price (around 350 DK) last September. (Also worthy of note: a bookshop in Sydney is selling the ARM at $A35 (about $US27) at the moment.)