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Another good read are The Annotated C++ Reference Manual [1] and The Design and Evolution of C++ [1]. They help understand all design compromises that were done to keep compatibility with C, which is was part of what brought C++ into the mainstream, but also the main cause of many of its warts. [1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Annotated-C-Reference-Manual/dp/02... [2] http://www.amazon.com/The-Design-Evolution-Bjarne-St…
> Another good read are The Annotated C++ Reference Manual[1] and The Design and Evolution of C++[1]. Annotated C++ Reference Manual as well as D&E is severely dated. Quite a while back there was some talk of stroustrup co-authoring a revision of the reference-manual with andrew-koenig, but it never came to fruition...
Re: Instance Model Programming in C
#21That is true, but the point here is to learn how C++ got designed in first place, you can't update that.