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Title: Accesible introduction to patterns
Review: This book is quite old now, but the material covered in the book does not suffer from its age, because the book is not supposed to be a language reference.The book starts with some words of wisdom on the basics of the language, for example spending just long enough talking about inheritence and polymorphism to get to the heart of the issue. There are some of the simpler idioms introduced earlier in the book (virtual constructors, reference counts, handle-bodies) and then the book moves towards more advanced material, including multiple dispatch, and the best discussion of the prototype pattern ("exemplars") that I have seen in any book.If you're looking for a way into "pattern oriented programming", and you found "Design Patterns" completely unreadable, this is a good book to get you started on some concrete examples.
