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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
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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Efficient Keys Safe Together
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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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Class Depth Order
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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Clue Helping Ideas
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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Details Find Head Need
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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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Funny Humorous Witty
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms

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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