"rupert" <ru****@web-ideas.com.auwrote:
It seems a need a paradime shift in understanding how C++ use
libraries. Sun keeps is together under their API. And Javadoc enables a
neat way of displaying functions of a local program to display like an
API. does C++ have an easy to use an API for standard functions
anywhere? and Is their a Javadoc implementation of sorts?
Since Java is proprietary, they can perhaps give the documentation
away for free. Since C++ is not owned by any company, the language
documentation, ironically, tends to cost money (though some good
free documentation is available).
Here's the FAQ for this newsgroup, which is loaded with information on C++,
and it's free:
http://www.parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
Here's the Ultimate Document for C++: the Standard; it's not free,
but a PDF copy is cheap at only $30 (you can get hardcopy if you
want, but that's $300, which is perhaps understandable if you
realize that this is a 758-page document):
http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstor...C+14882%2D2003
For a tutorial and reference on the standard library, read the book
"The C++ Standard Library" by Nicolai Josuttis, Addison-Wesley,
ISBN 0-201-37926-0, available used from $35 through Amazon.com (or
read it for free at a library).
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