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Ruminations on C++ by Andrew Koenig & Barbara Moo Highly Recommended

ISBN: 0-201-42339-1       Publisher: Addison-Wesley       Pages: 380pp       Price: £21-95

Categories:   advanced c++

Reviewed by Francis Glassborow in C Vu 9-1 (Nov 1996)

For the rest of you it is a collection of columns written by them over the last half dozen years. They have been revised so that any relevant changes to C++ since their first publication have been incorporated. The writing has been polished so that it is a pleasure to read (even more so than in the originals). The authors have mastered the art of writing the technical essay and I wish more would do so.

The essays are not about the technology of the language but about how to use this technology with understanding. I think the last chapter (32) would be worth the price of the book to many. It is titled What do you do after you say Hello World.

I am not going to say anything more about this book because I think it should be read by every C++ programmer. You will be a rare person if you neither enjoy reading it nor learn anything from the process.

Moo
Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig & Barbara Moo [Highly Recommended]  (Reviewed Sep 2000)