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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 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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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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Effort Java May
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
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
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
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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Arrogant Benefits Technology
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers

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