bs@alice.att.com (Bjarne Stroustrup)
new book on the design and evolution on C++
4 Mar 94 12:42:18 GMT
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
- Newsgroups:
- comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.lang.c
I have written a book explaining why C++ is the way it is.
The intent is to complement ``The C++ Programming Language
(2nd edition)'' which explains what C++ is and how to use it.
Bjarne Stroustrup
The Design and Evolution of C++
Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-54330-3.
March 1994.
Among other things, this book answers many of the questions
about the reasoning behind C++ found in these newsgroups.
Outline:
Preface
Contents
Notes to the Reader
The Prehistory of C++
C with Classes
The Birth of C++
C++ Language Design Rules
Chronology 1985-1993
Standardization
Interest and Use
Libraries
Looking Ahead
Memory Management
Overloading
Multiple Inheritance
Class Concept Refinements
Casting
Templates
Exception Handling
Namespaces
The C Preprocessor
Index
472 pages.
This book is available starting this coming week.
- Bjarne