Title: Good writing style, good detailed content, but only C++
Review: I think this is a very good book. Although I noticed someone else complained about the authors anecdotal style, I find it helps keep my attention through what could be incredibly tedious technical details. By writing this way I think he has been able to include a great deal of detail without putting everyone to sleep, which is good, IMHO. An example (while talking about reference counting): "It is far too easy for another programmer...to screw up the lifetimes and break the optimized reference counts."The warning that isn't made clear enough, however, is that this is really only a C++ book. If C++ isn't the language you plan to use, I would not recommend this book (and the fine print on the back cover does say this book is for "intermediate to advanced C++ programmers").
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