I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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[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.
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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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.
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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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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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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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