Re: boning up on c,c++

["Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS" <user=91@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 10:15:29AM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote: 
> Guys, 
> 
> I had a phone interview with a wall street recruiting firm. They like to 
> ask you a bunch of c,c++ technical questions over the phone before the 
> actually invite you for a face to face interview. Well, I've been coding 
> c for 20 years and c++ for a good 15 years, and I've realized that I'm a 
> bit out of date on the language. Basically I use enough of the language 
> to get my work done, but I skip over a lot of the newer features because 
> I never went through formal training in the language syntax. 
> (for example, one question was... "What's more efficient, initializing 
> variables inside the constructor through explicit assignment or using 
> initializers?" Also lots of questions on the use of "const". Anyway, I 
> realize that I need to do a syntax review of the language, (Its 
> something I should do anyway) and I was wondering if you guys could 
> recommend a c++ book which is brief but covers all the modern usages of 
> c++. 
>