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Review title: Disorganized, hard to use, uninformative - waste of money
Product review: A good reference book should a) allow you to find things, and b) tell you something useful when you get there.This book does neither. No single subject is covered comprehesively. Subjects that *are* discussed are dispersed throughought the 1200-page book haphazardly and are poorly indexed. Important implementation details of template classes and functions are omitted, or are presented in fragments hundreds of pages apart.To give you a sense of the kind of books I like: I hated Stroustrup's books for these same reasons. I liked Kernighan and Ritchie a lot. Kochan's "Programming in ANSI C" was good. Meyers' books were good. If these opinions are in the ballpark for you - cut and run now. Lippman won't do it for you.
