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Summary: Effective C++
Review: This is the most disapointing book on C++ that I have ever read. Not only are the author's "simple" examples unrelated to anything that programmers do in the real world, they are written from the viewpoint of the programming gods on Mount Olympus. Does anybody really care whether your "pointer to a derived function of a virtual base class that inherits nothing, can end up being a consternation for those expecting a pure, inherited pointer to a class that is virtually derived?"Huh? Enough said. C++ is an obscure language enough. And not one that will be around for very long in view of the developments of web programming in general. It will always be a basis to start from -- then once learned, quickly forgotten, like Latin. If you want more from this book then study FORTRAN, the precursor of the Latin we all know (and are struggling to work with to this day).
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Summary: Do yourself a favour and buy it
Review: Two really good books (ad more) in a very nice HTML format; one of the few hypertexts i saw that didn't make me miss the paper.
The books are easy to read (a collection of self-contained specific points) analyzed to a great detail level.
I can't see a reason for a C++ programmer to miss this great collection at such an interesting price.
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