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"First of all, both books are very short" Both tools are small and self-contained, because they date from an era when that was the style. Most programmers don
by ken 8y ago
"First of all, both books are very short"
Both tools are small and self-contained, because they date from an era when that was the style. Most programmers don't seem to want that any more. ("Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.") They want "batteries included".
Does anyone believe that even Kernighan could write a short book covering C++17?
The most important first step, then, is picking a subject matter which it's possible to isolate. Everything has become so entangled, though, that I'm not sure how to do that any more.
- AnimalMuppet 8y ago> Does anyone believe that even Kernighan could write a short book covering C++17? I suspect that Stroustrup's "A Tour of C++" is the shortest C++ book possible. The 2013 edition (not covering C++17, obviously) has the index beginning on page 171 - astonishingly short for the complexity of C++11. Interestingly, the quote that heads the first chapter [Edit: preface, not first chapter] is "If you wish to instruct, be brief", quoting Cicero.