Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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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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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++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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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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