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May 12, 2012
Well...it's a reference manual. What did you expect?
I think my main problem with it is that if you diligently learn the conventions of the language in the order they are presented in Stroustrop's seminal The C++ Programming Language: Special Edition, then you really don't need this reference, which is simply an annotated index of the material in that work. Perhaps those working at higher levels of abstraction need to understand the ordering of functional behaviors at to the degree presented here, but for most of us, this is unnecessary detail. And if people are really worrying about those higher levels of abstraction, what are they doing down here in the C++ ghetto anyway? Get back to System Language where you belong, you freaks! Or C, at least.
I think my main problem with it is that if you diligently learn the conventions of the language in the order they are presented in Stroustrop's seminal The C++ Programming Language: Special Edition, then you really don't need this reference, which is simply an annotated index of the material in that work. Perhaps those working at higher levels of abstraction need to understand the ordering of functional behaviors at to the degree presented here, but for most of us, this is unnecessary detail. And if people are really worrying about those higher levels of abstraction, what are they doing down here in the C++ ghetto anyway? Get back to System Language where you belong, you freaks! Or C, at least.
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