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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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.
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Stories Technology Wish
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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Class Depth Order
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
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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Insufficient Long Running Trying
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 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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years

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