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From: "Mike Dimmick" <mike@dimmick.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Book recomendation?
Date: 2000/03/07
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"Geoff Bull" <geoff@research.canon.com.au> wrote in message
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> xl@home.com wrote:
> >
> > Could someone please suggest a good book which will help me make the
> > transition from ADA95 to C++?
>
> You'll need this:
> Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger for GDB version 4.18
> by Richard M. Stallman, Cygnus Solutions
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1882114760/qid=951275334/sr=1-1/0
02-0579459-8422652
>
> and
>
> The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201889544/qid=951275567/sr=1-2/0
02-0579459-8422652

I'd also like to recommend the books:

Effective C++, 2nd Ed (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-92488-9)
More Effective C++ (Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-63371-X)
both by Scott Meyers.

These books really teach you how to use C++ properly.  Anyone who
dismisses C++ out of hand should read these books.

For an example of how to do it badly, read MFC Internals
(0-201-40721-3).  Good framework, good algorithms, poor style.

If you do get Stroustrup, make sure it's the latest edition, as earlier
versions didn't cover Standard C++.  A heck of a lot of changes were
made to the standard before it was finalised.

--
Mike Dimmick