On 4/20/2016 6:53 AM, Jim Michaels wrote:
haven't been able to afford the reference book yet. I avoid
stackoverflow.com because it CC licenses your code examples and
software. I can't have someone else licensing my code and copyrighting
my code to own it. I consider that stealing.
You can find the C++ specification online at
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4296.pdf
That's not quite official, it's the latest working draft, so it might
have some features that haven't been implemented yet. But I have found
those "drafts" good enough when I had a question about the details of C++.
Granted, slogging through the working drafts is hard work. It would be
easier with a real book that presented things in a human-readable
fashion.(*) For other languages (e.g., PHP, Javascript, Perl) I have
liked the O'Reilly books named "Programming xxx" or "xxx The Definitive
Guide" the best. They present the language in a way you can understand,
and are useful both as learning tools and as reference works when you
already know most of the language and need to look up details. But I
don't see a simple "Programming C++" at the O'Reilly site, so I'm not
sure what to recommend. Maybe _C++ In a Nutshell_ ($31.99 Ebook, $39.95
paper) and/or _C++ Pocket Reference" for only $7.99 (EBook) or $9.99
(dead trees edition)
(*) The spec, after all, is intended to tell compiler writers how they
must (or in some cases may) implement the language. It is only
secondarily aimed at users of the language.
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