Re:The Power C Compiler
by judojava on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:41PM
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The goodness was actually the book. The writing was simple and clear, the examples were self-contained and practical. It was a perfect textbook. Many years ago I gave my tattered copy to a second-cousin when he was about 15 and it totally changed his life; he became a coder and never looked back.
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>The goodness was actually the book. The writing was simple and clear, the examples were self-contained and practical. It was a perfect textbook.
Very True.
All documentation that came with the then OSes, Toolchains etc. were top-notch. Far better then many of the textbooks being published today. I still have a volume of early C++ papers (some authored by Stroustrup himself) which came with the SCO Unix C++ toolchain. That was the first place i learnt about "C++ Internals" i.e. vtables etc.