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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPIt 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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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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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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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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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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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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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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