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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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Funny Humorous Witty
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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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
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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Clue Helping Ideas
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
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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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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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Believe Discussing People Simple
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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Details Find Head Need
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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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Efficient Keys Safe Together
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman

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