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

Bjarne Stroustrup

[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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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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Important Language Simple Use
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source 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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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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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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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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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