C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
BJARNE STROUSTRUPMost of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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.
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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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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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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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