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The C++ Programming Language and the ARM(Annotated Reference Manual) won me many interviews. After reading those I could claim that I know the language. Sadly, I could never find such concise reference for Python or Java (or Erlang, but there was no documentation anyway).


Python: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Essential-Reference-David-Beazl...

Java: http://www.amazon.com/Java-Language-Specification-The-Editio...

What do you mean you can't find them?


688 pages is not concise.


At 1000+ pages, I don't think The C++ Programming Language is a concise book.


The Java Programming Language, 4th Ed. (heard 5th in the making).

This is the equivalent to The C++ Programming Language. Written by Ken Arnold, James Gosling, etc.


900+ pages is concise?


Have you read it?




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