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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThe most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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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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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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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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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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