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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

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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Connections Errors Thinking
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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Google Quality Thinking
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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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Important Language Simple Use
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
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
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
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
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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Cad Support Tools
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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Insufficient Long Running Trying
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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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking

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