Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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.
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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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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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