Dedication
Jesse Liberty:This book is dedicated to the living memory of David Levine.Bradley Jones:Dedicated to my wife and our future family.Acknowledgments
JESSELIBERTY:A fifth edition is another chance to acknowledge and to thank those
folks without whose support and help this book literally would have been impossible.
First among them remain Stacey, Robin, and Rachel Liberty.
I must also thank my editors at Sams for being professionals of the highest quality; and I
must especially acknowledge and thank Michael Stephens, Loretta Yates, Songlin Qiu,
Seth Kerney, and Karen Annett.
I would like to acknowledge the folks who taught me how to program: Skip Gilbrech and
David McCune, and those who taught me C++, including Stephen Zagieboylo. I would
like to thank the many readers who helped me find errors and typos in the earlier editions
of this book.
Finally, I’d like to thank Mrs. Kalish, who taught my sixth-grade class how to do binary
arithmetic in 1965, when neither she nor we knew why.
BRADLEYJONES:I would also like to thank Mark Cashman, David Corbin, Songlin Qiu,
and a number of readers from the previous editions.
In this fifth edition, we made an extra effort to ensure accuracy; we focused on honing
the content of this book for technical accuracy with an eye on the latest specifications for
the C++ language. Although we still might have missed something, chances are good
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