Book review by Ted Felix
This used to be considered the book that separated the real C++ programmers from the wannabes. Now the emphasis has changed significantly, and this book seems a bit outdated. Meyers covers most of the really useful stuff found in this book in his Effective C++ and More Effective C++ books (see Meyers 1999). This is a book for the hardcore Intermediate C++ programmer looking to achieve "Advanced" status. For me, the coverage of bitwise copy, and the envelope-letter idiom were worth the price of admission. Later chapters cover making C++ behave more like a real object oriented language. The beginnings of the Patterns movement are obvious in this book.
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