<p>I haven't used <code>C++</code> since college.  Even though I've wanted to I haven't needed to do any until I started wanting to write plugins for <code>Launchy</code>. </p>

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  <p>Is there a good book to read to get back into it?</p>
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<p>My experience since college is mainly <code>C#</code> and recently <code>ruby</code>. I bought some book for <code>C#</code> developers and it ended up being on how to write <code>C++</code> with <code>CLI</code>. While a good book it wasn't quite what I was looking for.</p>

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