"Andrei Alexandrescu" <seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org> wrote in message news:guitu0$op...@digitalmars.com... > Sean Kelly wrote: >> Brad Roberts wrote: >>> >>> There's only one book that I can remember ever working through the >>> exercises >>> on.. and that's even a stretch of the term exercise: Exceptional C++. >>> >>> For any of you that develop c++ code and haven't read that book.. I >>> highly >>> recommend it. >> >> Scott Meyers is an excellent technical writer--he's one of the few >> authors whose books I'd pick up without ever cracking the cover. > > So is Herb Sutter, the author of Exceptional C++. Are you sure you cracked > that one even after you bought it? Nyuk, nyuk... :o) >
Looks like I'm not the only one that gets those books confused :). When "Exceptional C++" was mentioned, I thought it was that C++ book you wrote. I think I breifly browsed through one or two of those "E* C++" books before. Was very impressed with them (and also a similar book from a different publisher geared towards game dev), but I think my biggest take-away from all of them was, "Alright, that's it, screw C++." ;) Then I found D. Not that the books were difficult or anything, in fact they did a great job of making an extremely complicated language as easy as possible. But they just made it finally click in my mind just what a PITA/POS C++ had become. Shit, I'm rambling again... ;)
