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ISBN-13: 978-0-321-77640-2
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To my parents, with love.

Id like to thank Mark Taber and Samantha Sinkhorn of Pearson for guiding and managing this project and David Horvath for providing technical review and editing.

Id like to thank Loretta Yates and Songlin Qiu of Sams Publishing for guiding and managing this project. Thanks to my colleague Fred Schmitt for several useful suggestions. Once again, Id like to thank Ron Liechty of Metrowerks for his helpfulness.

Several editors from Pearson and from Sams helped originate and maintain this project; thanks to Linda Sharp, Karen Wachs, and Laurie McGuire. Thanks, too, to Michael Maddox, Bill Craun, Chris Maunder, and Phillipe Bruno for providing technical review and editing. And thanks again to Michael Maddox and Bill Craun for supplying the material for the Real World Notes. Finally, Id like to thank Ron Liechty of Metrowerks and Greg Comeau of Comeau Computing for their aid with C++ compilers.

Id like to thank the editors from Macmillan and The Waite Group for the roles they played in putting this book together: Tracy Dunkelberger, Susan Walton, and Andrea Rosenberg. Thanks, too, to Russ Jacobs for his content and technical editing. From Metrowerks, Id like to thank Dave Mark, Alex Harper, and especially Ron Liechty, for their help and cooperation.

Id like to thank Mitchell Waite and Scott Calamar for supporting a second edition and Joel Fugazzotto and Joanne Miller for guiding the project to completion. Thanks to Michael Marcotty of Metrowerks for dealing with my questions about their beta version CodeWarrior compiler. Id also like to thank the following instructors for taking the time to give us feedback on the first edition: Jeff Buckwalter, Earl Brynner, Mike Holland, Andy Yao, Larry Sanders, Shahin Momtazi, and Don Stephens. Finally, I wish to thank Heidi Brumbaugh for her helpful content editing of new and revised material.

Many people have contributed to this book. In particular, I wish to thank Mitch Waite for his work in developing, shaping, and reshaping this book, and for reviewing the manuscript. I appreciate Harry Hendersons work in reviewing the last few chapters and in testing programs with the Zortech C++ compiler. Thanks to David Gerrold for reviewing the entire manuscript and for championing the needs of less-experienced readers. Also thanks to Hank Shiffman for testing programs using Sun C++ and to Kent Williams for testing programs with AT&T cfront and with G++. Thanks to Nan Borreson of Borland International for her responsive and cheerful assistance with Turbo C++ and Borland C++. Thank you, Ruth Myers and Christine Bush, for handling the relentless paper flow involved with this kind of project. Finally, thanks to Scott Calamar for keeping everything on track.

Stephen Prata taught astronomy, physics, and computer science at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California. He received his B.S. from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has authored or coauthored more than a dozen books on programming topics including