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 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.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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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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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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