eliot@peyote.cactus.org (Topher G. Eliot) (05/09/90)
I'm puzzled that in all of this discussion about which book one should read
to learn C++ and/or OOP, Stroustrup's book receives so little mention. When
I went to find a book to learn C++, I felt that his was the obvious choice,
given no other guidance. So far, it seems ok to me, but I'm not very picky.
Is there some reason that other people aren't paying attention to it?
I do have one complaint about it: he occasionally drifts back and forth
between declaring classes as classes, and declaring them as structs. I can
only speculate that this is an historical artifact, from before the keyword
"class" had been defined for C++.
I appreciate the fact that he points out things that are wrong with C++, or
that cannot be done with C++.
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