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>I love how Stroustrup writes his books. Concise. Amazon states it's 1368 pages.

• pjmlp 13y ago
  How big are the Java or C# reference, including their libraries?
  • ternaryoperator 13y ago
    What's the relevance to Stroustrup being concise?
    • pjmlp 13y ago
      That they are much bigger than C++, hence Bjarne is being concise.
  • danbruc 13y ago
    C# 2.0/ECMA-334 4th edition [1] is specified on 553 pages - Microsoft did not submit later versions. The underlying virtual machine, the common type system, the assembly language and so on are specified in ECMA-335 6th edition [2] on 574 pages supplemented with 161,593 lines of XML (plus 155 lines DTD) specifying the base class library. TR/84 [3] provides tools to generate documentation in various formats from the mentioned XML file. The included output as PDF sums up to 5,868 pages. Finally there is TR/89 [4] describing some more generic types on 67 pages. [1] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm... [2] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm... [3] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/techreports/E-TR-084.htm http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/techreports/E... [4] http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/techreports/E-TR-089.htm http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/techreports/E...