Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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