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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!pravda.aa.msen.com!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!oitnews.harvard.edu!news.dfci.harvard.edu!gotd From: gotd@jimmy.harvard.edu (Godfrey Degamo) Newsgroups: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c-cat,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,alt.syntax.tactical,comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Beginner to C/C++ looking for some good books Followup-To: misc.jobs.offered,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c-cat,comp.object,comp.lang.eiffel,alt.syntax.tactical,comp.lang.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc Date: 21 Aug 1995 19:07:22 GMT Organization: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Lines: 18 Message-ID: <41alha$b1g@cisunix1.dfci.harvard.edu> References: <0sh80405$w$7@news.iostream.com> <401oqj$n1m@natasha.rmii.com> <40b4i2$egf@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <brockmanDDLJDL.2IJ@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ada.dfci.harvard.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au misc.jobs.offered:185295 comp.lang.c:109593 comp.lang.c++:119678 comp.object:30402 comp.lang.eiffel:8803 alt.syntax.tactical:909 comp.lang.misc:17003 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:124 daniel brockman (brockman@netcom.com) wrote: : In article <40b4i2$egf@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> psilocyn@ix.netcom.com (Jeff W. ) writes: : >I've been trying to learn C++ on my own with the online books that come : >with Borland C++ 4.5, but I'm having trouble understanding them. So I : C++ is philosophically unsound. it is nonsense. no one can understand : nonsense. Don't worry about it. : db Why is C++ philosophically unsound? I am planning on learning it, if they ever standardize the language. (Have they done so yet?) But, if it is unsound, then maybe I should concentrate my efforts on algorithms and expanding my data structure libraries. -Godfrey Degamo