From: Rodeo Red <rodeored AT netstep DOT net>
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Subject: Re: "for" messages
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:12:47 -0500
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> Rodeo Red (rodeored AT netstep DOT net) wrote:
> > This short example program from "Using C++ by Rob McGregor will not
> > complile with djgpp and produces the messages below.  I assume it
> > probably does compile on some other compiler so I thought you could tell
> > me what's making djgpp puke.
>
> [...]
>
> The code example has been bashed to death, already, so let me give
> just one more advice, on a somewhat broader scale: you should consider
> getting rid of that book, right now. It's teaching you a programming
> language that doesn't exist, any more: pre-ANSI C++. The reason DJGPP
> doesn't accept that program was simply that it's too old-fashioned.
>

I was aware of the "ANSI" standard when I bought the book,  which was
published in 1999- first printing in 1998- and it  does say on the cover
"covers ANSI Standard C++."  I guess they lied.

I'll probably end up picking my way through a harder book like The C++
Programming Language Third Edition by Bjarne Stroustrup even though its
alledgedly not for beginers. I looked at it today and surprizingly  I could
actally follow some of it.  At least when I ask questions my confusion will be
my own and not the book's. It seems like the people who answer my questions on
the internet would also prefer it that way.


Red
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