That is my only adverse comment on this book. Oh, there is one other comment, the title does not have enough of the 'buy me' flavour. Take this book and open it anywhere and start reading, unless you are up there with the Dan Saks' and Scott Meyers' of this world you will learn something useful. A bad book is easy to review in the sense that you do not have to do more than instance a few exemplars of its rottenness and the reader will get the point. No one expects an exhaustive list of all the faults.
Good books are much harder to review because the reviewer keeps seeing new things to highlight.
You will enjoy the author's interview of Bjarne Stroustrup that kicks the book off. If the answer to both questions is 'yes' then I think you should invest some time studying this book. A chapter a week for the next five months should be about right. However I think that I would happily add the current book to make it a round dozen. Last Update - 11 September 2001.