On 06/17/12 18:41, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > I'm surprised by such claims. I found EoP very easy to read. > > Andrei
Ok let me restate this. First, those words are originally from Stepanov himself "This is not an easy book" is explicitly written in the inner cover :) Then it's not a *difficult* book if you have a mathematical background - any engineer degree would do - but if you came to programming from a different path, you'd probably find it queasy. I don't expect anyone in this forum to have this background thus the disclaimer but I may be wrong. Moreover if you intend to read it the way it's planned by the author (doing the exercises and proving the lemmas) it's not as fun as reading TDPL. Let's say you need to think while reading, a bit like for 'Modern C++ design'. I hope these few lines gives a more comprehensive view of what I meant and won't discourage anyone from reading it.
