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From: COATES@EUROPA.UMUC.EDU (Ell)
Subject: Re: Premises of Fleming's accusations
Date: 1995/05/11
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In <3ornv6$63a@punchdown.zocalo.com> kal@chromatic.com writes:

Regarding Plaugher book's copyright to portions of the C++ standard:

>          I don't know about the software (maybe it's been updated)
>          but the book is obsolete. It doesn't have STL, Locales,
>          auto_ptr etc. Iostreams have been templatized and a lot
>          different from what is in the book. Exception hierarchy
>          is different and basic_string is now STL compliant. I
>          can't think of anything in the book that exactly conforms
>          to the standard. The book seems to me to have been "hastily
>          written" and has some trivial and avoidable errors. You
>          can refer to a very good review (in the editorial in C++
>          Report) by Stan Lippmann (no longer an AT&T employee :-)).

Great!

Elliott