jimad@microsoft.UUCP (Jim ADCOCK) (10/18/90)
In article <28690@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> achoi@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andrew Choi) writes: >Is Stroustrup's "new" book _The_Annotated_C++_Reference_Manual_ a good >book? ("good" in the sense that it's not a transient like his other book). "Transient" depends I suppose on when one bought one's "The C++ Programming Language" -- for many years this was the only C++ book, and one was damned thankful for it! And I'm sure it will be a standard first text again once Stroustrup updates it. >Moreover, I have Lippman's _C++_Primer_, is it worth to spend another >$30 on another C++ book? If you want to know the fine-grained details of the language, then the ARM is the thing to get. One should know Lippman well before exposing oneself to the ARM however -- it is not an introductory text! How long until the ARM is hopelessly out of date depends on what the ANSIfication committee does, and when. My bet is that the ARM is worth buying....