link to worst C++ books ever, examples included

[codekiddy]

LOL check this out.
thanks god I've never buy such book.
http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/users/yechiel/CS/BadBooksC+C++.html

[Catfish]

Ha ha, Itchy and Scratchy! Ha ha, Herbert Schildt! Nice link, thanks.

[LB]

o_o

...why do these people even write books at all?

[Peter87]

Many of the books are old and published before the first standard was out so it was probably hard to write good C++ books back then.

[Athar]

Many of the books are old and published before the first standard was out so it was probably hard to write good C++ books back then.

Well, I don't know about that. There should have been standard drafts they could have referred to. My personal "worst C++ book" (C++ in 21 days) was released in 1997, the same time "The C++ Programming Language" was released. And the latter is arguably still (one of) the best resources about C++ to this date.

[codekiddy]

The most funy code snippet from C++ book:

Apart from not compiling this code, you can see that the author does not care about appropriate knowledge of operator new and about exceptions.
There are more questionable issues here . . .

void binarySearchTree::insert(node* &root, nodeValue new_value)
{
  if (root == NULL)
  {
    root = new node(new_value, NULL, NULL);
    if (!root)
       throw false;
  }
  else if (root->value > new_value)
	insert(root->LChild, new_node);
  else
	insert(root->RChild, new_node);

aahhahhaahh

[3hM2Nwbp]

@codekiddy

What the author forgot to show was

#define node (nothrow) node
#define throw return
#define false 

He also apologizes for abusing the preprocessor in this fashion.

[codekiddy]

did he?

I didn't see that ^^

however preprocessor is ugly.

EDIT.
author did not call delete