FAQ 1.07 What is the electronic FAQ and why buy this book when the electronic FAQ is free?

The electronic FAQ is a set of C++ questions and answers, originally prepared and distributed on the Internet by Marshall Cline. The Internet version is currently updated and distributed by Marshall and is available through the news group comp.lang.c++. This book has substantially more material than the electronic FAQ.

This book and the electronic FAQ were inspired by a seemingly unquenchable thirst among C++ developers for more and better information about C++ through comp.lang.c++. Addison-Wesley decided to provide an expanded form of that information in book format.

This book covers a broader range of topics and goes into greater depth than the electronic FAQ. It provides deeper coverage of the key points with extensive new examples.

Most of the programming examples are working, stand-alone programs, complete with their own main(), all necessary #include files, and so on. All examples have been compiled directly from the source text of the book; those that are complete programs have also been run.