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.
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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This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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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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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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[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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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