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 STROUSTRUPPeople 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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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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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Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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 assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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