On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 23:53, M. Mueller/bhu5nji wrote: > I did a stare and compare of the Josuttis book (copyright 1999 $49) and the > Musser et al 2nd. Ed. (copyright 2001 $44) at my local Borders. They were > quite similar. I opted to the Musser book for 4 reasons: 1) more recent > copyright, 2) Musser is professionally close to Stepanov, 3) Addison Wesly > Professional Computing Series have been good choices in the past, and 4) the > reference material was slightly more verbose. I felt a bit rebellious since > Amazon reviews were similar in nature to the one above.
There's a reason the reviews are like that. :-) Like I said, however, I haven't seen Musser 2nd ed. so it could be just as good. I know that the 1st edition is considered the seminal work... Don't discount Josuttis too much though. I belive he was one the committee that worked on standardizing the STL. This, to me, counts for more since the STL has changed considerably since Stepanov first introduced it (for the better of course:). > I also recall that GLIB is covered by the GPL and the C++ Stand Library is > covered by the LGPL. As I am developing a commercial application, the LGPL > is more attractive to me as well. No, glib is LGPL. STL, however, being part of the standard C++ library, is available under whatever kind of license you want. In fact, if your C++ compiler doesn't include it, it's not a (standards compliant) C++ compiler. :-) Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Those who are willing to sacrifice essential liberties for a little order, will lose both and deserve neither. -- Benjamin Franklin History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. -- Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989
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