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The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

#11

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I wish was a real HTML tag

It's a semantic div tag, and it's spelled "".

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

#15
I wonder if the book itself is actually any good.

My understanding is that authors often have little or not control over the covers chosen by their publishers.

It's at least possible that the book itself is excellent, but I'm not going to spend $90+ on a hardcover copy to find out.

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

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Its crazy to me how little effort publishers put into the basic parts of their job sometimes. Its even funnier that raymond chen of all people is the one calling this out

Also is this an official Microsoft dev blog? Probably not a good look back at publishing hq

It is, and it's a famous and popular blog too. Lots of older submissions have been highly upvoted here.

Re: The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover

#19

It reminds me of an incident involving an old colleague of mine at some kind of graduate recruitment fair thing. He walked past a stand which was trying to hire engineers which had some code on the wall when the following exchange happened: Recruiter: Hey there! Do you know what this is? Colleague: Err, … It *looks* like some sort of network protocol Recruiter: No, it’s *COMPUTER CODE*

I like to pause movies when some code is shown and see what it is. Apparently you can break into pentagon by knowing basic sql and high-level employees have alternate life writing tcp implementations and graphics libraries.
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