My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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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.
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C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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