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Stroustrup is an outstanding writer. He writes well and without hyperbole. He points out mistakes as well as times when something was done for political expediency rather than technical need. It's quite interesting to see how the language has evolved ... Read More
It is really about how the c++ language grew from a lab experiment by someone who wanted a better programming language and wanted other people to use that language because it was a better language. These explain the author's personal views on programm... Read More
It highlights why c++ is the way it is today.
This book offers key insight into the class layout in memory, vtables, multiple inheritance and the type-checking system. The only exception is that this book made me curious about the intersection rule from andrew koenig about overloaded functions.
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It starts with the very roots an extension to the c language c with classes bjarne devised back in 1979 because he faced a soft... Read More
It starts with the very roots an extension to the c language c with classes bjarne devised back in 1979 because he faced a soft... Read More
First of all this isnt a book for those who are unfamiliar with the c language
So my opinion is that to really get the maximum out of this book you really need intimate knowledge and experience with the c p... Read More
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This book should be on anybodys shortlist of must have c books
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It starts with the very roots an extension to the c language c with classes bjarne devised back in 1979 because he faced a software engineering problem at the time where all currently available tools seemed inappropriate
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Bjarne stresses the point that c was designed from the beginning to be a multiple paradigm language
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The book is not for the novice programmer but for the experienced c user who wants to know the whys behind the language
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While a novice might be interested in that information too it is not an advisable lecture for those readers since they might easily get confused with the source code examples showing directions in which c did not evolve
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To quote one of the design goals c is a generalpurpose language designed to make programming more enjoyable for the serious programmer i think it succeeded
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Almost any aspect of the c language is listed along with a description of how it works and why
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This book offers key insight into the class layout in memory vtables multiple inheritance and the typechecking system
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If youre looking for info on the stl this book has none this is strictly c language related
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