This book introduces standard C++ and the key programming and design techniques supported)y C++. Standard C++ is a far more powerful and polished language than the version of C++ intro-iuced by the first edition of this book. New language features such as namespaces, exceptions,jmplates, and run-time type identification allow many techniques to be applied more directly thanwas possible before, and the standard library allows the programmer to start from a much higher level than the bare language.