On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:18 am, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 22:34:35 +0800
Derek Fountain
wrote: If you're working with a language as complex as C++, and you really want the details, you need a copy of the standard. It costs money, and isn't free to distribute, but the GCC coders bought a copy and worked to it. If you want to know what Stallman et al were thinking, read the standard. Then you'll know. For most of us, a copy of the Stroustrup book is adequate.
I fully concur with Derek. If you are programming in any language, C, C++, Java, COBOL, or even ADA, you should have at least one book to use as a reference as well as some online references to keep track of recent changes as well as compiler differences. I have among my references, the original K&R, K&R 2nd edition, Stroustrup and several more books. If you are a newcomer to C++ or computer programming in general, there are several good (and bad) tutorial books.
-- -- Gerald Feldman
I have Ellis and Stroustrup's _The Annotated C++ Reference Manual_, as well as _Object-Oriented Programming Using C++_ by Ira Pohl, _Mastering C++_ by Cay Horstmann, and a few others. I guess I'm just used to Java's SDK, and JBuilder. This was my first Java 3D program: http://public.globalsymmetry.com/projects/math-3d/magic-cube.html It took me about 3 days of hard work to go from downloading the Java3D SDK to getting that running. This, my second effort, was about the same amount of work: http://public.globalsymmetry.com/projects/math-3d/living-basis.html This I wrote in Mathematica using the OO package from Roman Maeder's _Computer Science with Mathematica_. The file is quite large 23M, and requiers Math Reader or Mathematica: http://public.globalsymmetry.com/projects/lorenz3d/lorenz3D-scene1.nb This one is 63M uncompressed, and 16M compressed: http://public.globalsymmetry.com/projects/lorenz3d/lorenz3D-scene3.zip I haven't looked at these in months, I've been off studying ancient history, archaeology, linguistics and comparative religion. That's what got me looking at QT. I need an interface for a linguistics tool I want to write. STH