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.
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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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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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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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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