The C++ Programming-Language, 3rd Ed. - complete book !

Harry Meier · Sep 1, 2003

Agent Scully · Sep 2, 2003

The page cannot be found

The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed,
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Hmmm, seems that not all files are at their place,
but the book seems pretty complete when you look under:
http://whale.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pdf/vacpp/

Agent Mulder · Sep 2, 2003

<Harry Meier>
Just found it on the web by searching for significant parts of
the book-text with google; use the following as a filelist for
wget (wget -i filelistname):
</Harry Meier>

http://whale.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pdf/vacpp/toc.pdf

The page cannot be found
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Agent Mulder · Sep 2, 2003

Try

http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/C++/

-X

E. Robert Tisdale · Sep 2, 2003

Agent said:
<Harry Meier>
Just found it on the web by searching for significant parts of
the book-text with google; use the following as a filelist for
wget (wget -i filelistname):
</Harry Meier>

http://whale.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/pdf/vacpp/toc.pdf

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed,
or is temporarily unavailable.

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Please try the following:

Sorry Harry

This is the only section, so far, that I have been unable to download.
The other chapters prompt you to buy the book.
A copyright notice appears prominently on each one.

My guess is that this is a bootleg copy
and that distribution could get you into serious trouble
with BS and his publishers.

d2003xx · Sep 2, 2003

Here:

http://www.huizhi.net/download/list.asp?softid=109&action=download&list=1

Bjarne Stroustrup · Sep 4, 2003

Please note that there are no freely downloadable copies of "The C++
Programming Language". Any copy you might find is a copyright
violation. If you have a copy accessible on your site, please remove
it.

Note further that the copies that you might find (naively, but often
innocently offered) on the web are very early versions of the book
lacking the corrections and clarifications found in post-1998
printings. If you want to read TC++PL, do yourself a favor and use an
up-to-date copy.

For more information on C++ and TC++PL, see my home pages

- Bjarne Stroustrup; http://www.research.att.com/~bs

Adam Fineman · Sep 4, 2003

Bjarne said:
Please note that there are no freely downloadable copies of "The C++
Programming Language". Any copy you might find is a copyright
violation. If you have a copy accessible on your site, please remove
it.
<snip>

One would think that people who write software for a living would have a
little more regard for intellectual property.

Noah Roberts · Sep 4, 2003

Bjarne said:
Please note that there are no freely downloadable copies of "The C++
Programming Language". Any copy you might find is a copyright
violation. If you have a copy accessible on your site, please remove
it.

Note further that the copies that you might find (naively, but often
innocently offered) on the web are very early versions of the book
lacking the corrections and clarifications found in post-1998
printings. If you want to read TC++PL, do yourself a favor and use an
up-to-date copy.

For more information on C++ and TC++PL, see my home pages

- Bjarne Stroustrup; http://www.research.att.com/~bs

Or you can download Bruce Eckel's book Thinking in C++ from
http://mindview.net/Books

NR

Shane Beasley · Sep 5, 2003

Adam Fineman said:
One would think that people who write software for a living would have a
little more regard for intellectual property.

<advocate type="devil's">
Nobody said that all programmers do it for a living, or that those who
do it for a living make their money from software sales. Much (most?)
commercially-produced software is actually for internal use, not for
sale. (I supposed copyright matters there, but not nearly as much as
when a fair percentage of copies translates into lost sales.)

And then there's all the people who write Free and open-source
software, none of whom cash in on copyright (except maybe when
dual-licensing to other entities who also intend to cash in on their
copyright). In fact, many Free Software authors believe that the world
would be better off without copyright. And many of them are making
money off this software, one way or another. Additionally, many Free
and open-source packages started out as software developed by a
business for internal use -- in fact, I believe that's how C and C++
began.

And that's not even going into software patents, which is (or should
be) the cause du jour of software developers in Europe right now.

</advocate>

That said, Dr. Stroustrup's a great guy, and his book is the canonical
tome on the subject (canonicaltomes.org says so[1]), so buy a copy or
three. I did (and got it signed, even -- try *that* with a downloaded
PDF).

- Shane

Alexander Terekhov · Sep 5, 2003

Shane Beasley wrote:
[...]

I did (and got it signed, even -- try *that* with a downloaded PDF).

I'd rather want to have his signature on a contract (priced at 3 times
TC++PL ASP or so) for providing *patches* to my PDF for the next *ten*
(or so) years. ;-) ;-)

regards,
alexander.

osmium · Sep 5, 2003

Shane said:
That said, Dr. Stroustrup's a great guy, and his book is the canonical
tome on the subject (canonicaltomes.org says so[1]), so buy a copy or
three.

Neat link! The world has needed this for a long time. I have already
contributed a bit to the site, sign up was painless. And no, not computer
related.

mjm · Sep 5, 2003

The author no longer holds the copyright the publisher now does.
Moreover the author gets paid a pathetic royalty (10% if that much).
Amazon.com takes a bigger slice than that.

I would say contempt for intellectual property is firmly institutionalized in
our economy.

Ron Natalie · Sep 5, 2003

mjm said:
The author no longer holds the copyright the publisher now does.
Moreover the author gets paid a pathetic royalty (10% if that much).
Amazon.com takes a bigger slice than that.

The author still owns the copyright. He just assigned the rights for publication.
But anyhow, how does that justify stealing what little (you claim) the author gets?

mjm · Sep 7, 2003

The author still owns the copyright. He just assigned the rights for publication.

AT&T has the copyright, that's what it says on my edition.
If you are not AT&T the publisher will get the copyrights.

But anyhow, how does that justify stealing what little (you claim) the author gets?

I am not advocating the distribution of material that doesn't belong to you
on the internet. I agree that it should be taken off all such websites.

Ron Natalie · Sep 8, 2003

mjm said:
AT&T has the copyright, that's what it says on my edition.
If you are not AT&T the publisher will get the copyrights.

AT&T is NOT the publisher. Addison Wesley is.
AT&T ended up owning it, no doubt, because they are Stroustrup's employer.

Andrew Koenig · Sep 8, 2003

The author still owns the copyright. He just assigned the rights
mjm> AT&T has the copyright, that's what it says on my edition.
mjm> If you are not AT&T the publisher will get the copyrights.

That depends on the deal negotiated between author and publisher.

The C++ Programming-Language, 3rd Ed. - complete book !

Harry Meier

Agent Scully

Agent Mulder

Agent Mulder

E. Robert Tisdale

d2003xx

Bjarne Stroustrup

Adam Fineman

Noah Roberts

Shane Beasley

Alexander Terekhov

osmium

mjm

Ron Natalie

mjm

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