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The Design and Evolution of C++, First Edition
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The Design and Evolution of C++, First Edition

by Bjarne Stroustrup
March 1994
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
480 pages
15h 39m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Preface

He who does not plow, must write.

Martin A. Hansen

The ACM HOPL-2 conference on the History of Programming Languages asked me to write a paper on the history of C++. This seemed a reasonable idea and a bit of an honor, so I started writing. To get a more comprehensive and balanced view of C++’s growth, I asked a few friends from the early days of C++ for their recollections. That caused news of this project to travel through the grapevine. There, the story mutated, and one day I received a message from a friend asking where he could buy my new book on the design of C++. That email message is the real origin of this book.

Traditional books about programming and programming languages explain what a language is and how to use it. However, ...

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ISBN: 9780201543308