Chapter 19. What We Have Learned

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All right, it was a long way to go. I have to admit that this book took so much work that sometimes I thought that I would never get to write this last chapter. I am glad that I was wrong. The time came to stop plowing ahead. Now we can look back at the starting point and at the road that has led us here.

In this chapter, there will be no new syntax to study. Instead, I will try to summarize the basic characteristics of this great, wonderful, confusing—and dangerous—language: C++ as we know it. Now that you have grasped the entire subject and understand ...

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