The Annotated C++ Reference Manual [ANSI Base Document]

by Bjarne Stroustrup

This book provides a complete reference for the C++ programming language. It consists of the C++ reference manual, approved as the base document for ANSI standardization of the language, plus annotations and commentary. The annotations and commentary discuss what is not included in the language, why certain features are defined as they are, and how one might implement particular features. The commentaries also help the reader to understand the relationships between parts of the language. Comparisons with C and examples explain the more subtle points of the language. Sixteen chapters cover the latest version of C++ including multiple inheritance, abstract classes, templates, exception handling, and more. A final chapter describes resolutions by the ANSI/ISO committee including new features such as run-time type information and namespaces. Appendices summarize the grammar and evolution of the language, and explain in detail the differences between C and C++. The Annotated C++ Reference Manual will appeal to language implementors and expert C++ programmers. 0201514591B04062001

Genres: Programming, Computers, Reference, Computer Science, Software

Hardcover

First published January 11, 1990

Reviews

[David Dias · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for understanding the implementation of the language. I did not enjoy reading it. Read it just because I wanted to force myself to learn as much as c++ as I could on the simplest and most foundational levels.

[Gary]

good

[Jack Repenning · Rating 4 out of 5]

The reference manual is clear and logical, as befits an ANSI standard Base Document (which this is). But the annotations, which were pruned from the standard, are worth at least half the cost of the book. Where the reference and standard tell you what to do, the annotations tell you why, and what not to do, and how to dig yourself out when you do do.

[Nick Black · Rating 3 out of 5]

ehhh, kind of out of date and less detailed than i'd hoped for. if you've memorized the various fractured c++ FAQs, along with the Meyers Effective C++ titles, you've actually seen everything important in here referenced and expanded upon elsewhere.
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doing a lot more c++ these days, and trying to build up a mastery of it to rival my mastery of c...if that is indeed possible.

[Christophe Addinquy · Rating 3 out of 5]

ma note de lecture en français ici

[Mahesh Yeddu]

Good book

[Timothy Culp · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not very readable but critical if you need to learn the language constructs.

[Paramjot Singh]

This is my passion can't even think of leaving it ALONE...
I am one of them and I wanna shine like a star for others to adopt an inspiration.