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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI 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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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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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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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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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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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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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