Reviews for Symbolic C++

The average rating for Symbolic C++ based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-28 00:00:00 Debra Waldron A mediocre, outdated, verbose book about the Ruby programming language. In 900 pages, this book covers anything any everything Ruby-related, going into (often excrutiating) detail about even the most arcane Ruby libraries. The code samples in this book are pretty bad examples of idiomatic, clean Ruby code. For example, he has a consistent habit of using rescue clauses with no exception names, a terrible practice which commonly leads to false-positives. Even syntax errors will be ignored! The explanations are pretty bad too. This book even confused me about concepts I'd already understood. This book may work as an okay cookbook, but you'd be better off just reading the Ruby Cookbook. It can also be used to discover some libraries you may have never heard of. But by all means, do NOT try to read this all the way through or, God forbid, use it to actually learn Ruby,

Review # 2 was written on 2012-01-09 00:00:00 Jack Li I was expecting to get laid. So I decided to clean my room. Under all the filth I found something. An artefact from times long gone. This book. I started it at least two years ago, and never finished it. 'I can't leave it that way, I will read it right away'. And now, I've done it. Yay. The moral of this: Do not read this book if you want to get laid.