Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThere’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.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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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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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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