Table of Contents

PART I.

 1. The Prehistory of C++ .
 2. C with Classes.
 3. The Birth of C++.
 4. C++ Language Design Rules.
 5. Chronology 1985-1993.
 6. Standardization.
 7. Interest and Use.
 8. Libraries.
 9. Looking Ahead.
PART II.

 1. Memory Management.
 2. Overloading.
 3. Multiple Inheritance.
 4. Class Concept Refinements.
 5. Casting.
 6. Templates.
 7. Exception Handling.
 8. Namespaces.
 9. The C Preprocessor.
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About the Author

Bjarne Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++, the author of The C++ Programming Language, The Annotated C++ Reference Manual, and The Design and Evolution of C++, and the consulting editor of Addison-Wesley's C++ In-Depth Series. Having previously worked at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs-Research, he currently is the College of Engineering Chair in Computer Science Professor at Texas A&M University. The recipient of numerous honors, including the Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award (2008), Dr. Stroustrup is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an AT&T Fellow, an AT&T Bell Laboratories Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and an ACM Fellow. His research interests include distributed systems, simulation, design, programming techniques, software development tools, and programming languages, and he remains actively involved in the ANSI/ISO standardization of C++. Dr. Stroustrup holds an advanced degree from the University of Aarhus in his native Denmark and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England.