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Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:

> Scott Meyers is an incredibly smart C++ wizard.  His books are amazing.  
> The fact that it takes somebody that smart, and books that amazing, to 
> teach you how not to shoot yourself in the foot with a C++ compiler says 
> a lot about the language.

+1 QotW

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