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Good stuff, I can also heartily recommend Scott Meyer's Effective Modern C++ book which covers idiosyncrasies and some unexpected behaviour (at least to me).

Also Stroustrup's 4th edition of The C++ Programming Language is invaluable, if not just for the more-readable sans-serif font compared to the 3rd edition! And of course the coverage of all C++11 changes in it...

I can also recommend the Overload journal for interesting C++ articles (https://accu.org/index.php/journals/c78/)

And cppcon videos on YouTube - there's a wealth of info there, free.

Also the ISO CPP FAQ (which I think supersedes Stroustrup's?): https://isocpp.org/faq

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I need to figure out what to do with my expensive old hard cover addition of the (C++98) C++ Programming Language. It just sits there looking sad. Not much value in it anymore.

It's a monument to progress; for maximum artistic and educational value, place it where you see it every day on top of decorative obsolete hardware (I recommend the Thinking Machines CM-2 for prettiness or SGI workstation for historical value).

I started to read into "Effective Modern C++" but it seemed the book (or at least the beginning) focused too much on obscure edge-cases of C++ for me before I stopped reading. "Effective C++" didn't feel that way for me and many tips were useful on a day-to-day basis. Is this just me or did you have a similar experience? I read those books quite some time ago so my brain could also wrong me here...

I noticed there were many edge cases in it but it happened to cover a lot of issues inside some C++11 code I'd written and I find out it quite enlightening, particularly the section regarding reference collapsing, type deduction and the bit on threading really not working like you would expect.

I have not read the previous ones so not really sure on the style difference with them. I wonder if it depends on the sort of code you were writing - I was making use of std::thread and incorrectly assuming a certain behaviour.

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