Please Vote: Exercises in TDPL?

[Brad Roberts]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Andrei Alexandrescu" <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote in message 
> news:guitu0$opr$3 at digitalmars.com...
>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>>> There's only one book that I can remember ever working through the 
>>>> exercises
>>>> on.. and that's even a stretch of the term exercise:  Exceptional C++.
>>>>
>>>> For any of you that develop c++ code and haven't read that book.. I 
>>>> highly
>>>> recommend it.
>>> Scott Meyers is an excellent technical writer--he's one of the few 
>>> authors whose books I'd pick up without ever cracking the cover.
>> So is Herb Sutter, the author of Exceptional C++. Are you sure you cracked 
>> that one even after you bought it? Nyuk, nyuk... :o)
>>
> 
> Looks like I'm not the only one that gets those books confused :). When 
> "Exceptional C++" was mentioned, I thought it was that C++ book you wrote.
> 
> I think I breifly browsed through one or two of those "E* C++" books before. 
> Was very impressed with them (and also a similar book from a different 
> publisher geared towards game dev), but I think my biggest take-away from 
> all of them was, "Alright, that's it, screw C++." ;) Then I found D. Not 
> that the books were difficult or anything, in fact they did a great job of 
> making an extremely complicated language as easy as possible. But they just 
> made it finally click in my mind just what a PITA/POS C++ had become. Shit, 
> I'm rambling again... ;)
> 

One reason I like Exceptional C++ is that most of the points made in it
transcend the language and are just good programming tips.  It also does a good
job of presenting complex topics as well as basic topics.  Additionally, the
'exceptional' part isn't just about using exceptions in the language. :)

Later,
Brad