“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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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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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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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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