Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Only book of its kind...a real shame

This book is indispensable for doing complex i/o work in c++. Unfortunately, it's also a ponderous, confusing read. The density of the prose and the mediocre organization make it very difficult to use as a reference book.I've never had it steer me wrong, but every time I've used it, it has taken a lot of time and energy to actually find and decipher the content I needed.I'd advise waiting for "Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales" to come out in Dec 1999 instead, it'll be current and the preliminary reviews sound good..