Addison.Wesley.Lippman.Stanley.C .Primer.3rd.ed

Quite a few changes have occurred between the second and third editions of CPrimer. Most

notably, Chas undergone international standardization, which has not only added new features to the

language, such as exception handling, run-time type identification, namespaces, a built-in Boolean data

type, and a new cast notation, but has also extensively modified and extended existing features, such as

templates, the class mechanism in support of both object-oriented and object-based programming,

nested types, and overload function resolution. Perhaps of even more significance, an extensive library is

now part of Standard C, including what was previously referred to as the Standard Template Library,

or STL. A new string type, a set of sequence and associative container types — such as vector, list,

map, and set — and an extensible collection of generic algorithms to operate on those types are all

features of this new standard library. There's not only quite a lot of new material to cover but also new

ways to think about how we program in C. In short, not only has Cbeen, in effect, newly invented,

but so has the CPrimer for this, its third edition.