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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThere is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source 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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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