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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPMost of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good 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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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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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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