Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPNobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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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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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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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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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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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