[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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPCorporate 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.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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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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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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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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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 assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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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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