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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

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