<snip> Also Bjarne Stroustrop's book! </snip>

Stroustrop's book is useful as a reference and for raising my monitor
a couple of inches, but is a bit too verbose and esoteric for daily
use by regular mortals.

It is however in my mandatory list, along with the Nicolai Josuttis
book, "The C++ Standard Library", one of the few fifty-buckers that's
actually worth it.

-ted