If you are a novice, go your way, this book is clearly Experts! If you synonymous with generic virtual methods and polymorphism, welcome to school! Alexandrescu we unveiled an arsenal of impressive techniques you will not find in any other book on C ++. All generic, all elegant, all overpowering! Just a default, however, not insignificant: the code requires a highly compliant compiler to C ++ standard in 1998. Very difficult to find, unfortunately ... Despite this black spot is for me the best book on C ++ for 2001 2003. A revolution!