There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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 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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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