Title: Superficial and smug
Review: This book is not a complete waste of time.It does list most of the language features, but the examples are silly, repetitive, and pretty useless. One wonders why, for instance, the example given for how to call Win32 functions uses MessageBox. Is that the most usefull of the Win32 functions, or is it just too complicated to give an example of how to use a "by reference" parameter?The disparaging remarks about other languages, particularly C++, are ugly and only serve to emphasize the shortcomings of the author. If comparing this book to - for instance - "Introduction to the C++ language" by Stroustrup, one is struck by the advantages to an author of knowing both how to write in English and to write code, both areas where Eric Gunnerson has room for improvement.
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