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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!

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
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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Able Organization Treat
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
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
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
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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
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

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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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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