The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThere are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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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I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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