Tamas Rudnai wrote:
> ...but Software Engineering had never been thought to be Engineering
> :-) (just kidding)

I *KNEW* someone was going to bring that up...
The original version of my message (before I basically rewrote it) had 
this little gem in it:

] And, after all, [EE] is
] "Everything Engineering", right? (please don't start arguing about
] whether SE is a true "engineering" discipline, I don't want to start a
] Holy War)

> My 2 cents: I use MSDN, that answers to most of the questions
> (function names etc) -- that is free and online :-)

Catch: it covers Visual C++. Both VCPP and gcc deviate from the spec in 
different ways. For bonus points, some of gcc's deviations aren't 
documented particularly well :-/

> Also if you google on "C++ STL reference" there are many-many and even
> more hit, for example:
> 
> http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/
> http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/

I've seen those, but by the time cplusplus.com loads, I could have 
looked it up in a book.

> I would prefer one of these or couple of these instead of a book -- I
> can find things faster by searching phrases or slicking on structured
> links than reading a paper book, but you might find it the other way
> around.

I've got a Sony Reader (PRS505) that I mainly use for reading sci-fi 
books on the bus/train (courtesy of the "Baen Free Library" on 
www.baen.com). It works pretty well for ePUB-format books, too -- the 
catch is that it seems to have been designed for reading (e.g.) 
paperback novels, so it doesn't do full-text searching

Skimming big books tends to upset it a little, too. The ePUB version of 
"C++ In A Nutshell", for instance, repaginates to ~4000 screens worth of 
text. Going over a section break (or attempting to view a section you 
haven't looked at before) tends to make the Reader spin its wheels for a 
few seconds...

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