C++: A Dialog Programming with the C++ Standard Library

About the Author

I've always been fascinated by writing. In my childhood days in the 1950s and 1960s, I often stayed up far past my bedtime reading science fiction. Even in adulthood, in my off-hours I'm more likely to be found reading a book than doing anything else.

After college, I got into programming more or less by accident; I was working for an actuarial consulting firm and was selected to take charge of programming on their time-sharing terminal because I was making much less than most of the other employees. Finding the programming itself to be more interesting than the actuarial calculations, I decided to become a professional programmer.

Until 1984, I remained on the consuming side of the writing craft. Then one day I was reading ...