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From: jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Books on C++
Keywords: Turbo C++
Message-ID: <10366@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 91 21:55:45 GMT
References: <661@tronsbox.xei.com> <4854@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <19@microsoft.UUCP>
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In article <19@microsoft.UUCP>, jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) writes:
> 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 	The historical reference of where the language is coming from,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 predates 1.2.  For instance, no mention is made of the
"protected" keyword, since it wasn't in the language in version 1.0.
Beginners should be warned away STRONGLY from this book, not because
it's bad or anything, only because it's so outdated.

Otherwise, great list.

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Joe Buck
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