"Greg Brewer" <nospam.greg@brewer.net> wrote in message
news:8mudqj$b9s$1@news.hal-pc.org...
> Although I'm not sure what the D&E is[...  snip]
D&E is Bjarne Stroustrup's _Design and Evolution of C++_, a book which you
absolutely must read if you are going to post philosophical questions about
why this or that is the way it is in C++.


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