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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

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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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Company Impact Possible Real Trying

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