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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPWith 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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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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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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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