Proof by analogy is fraud.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPProof by analogy is fraud.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPAlways think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPIf you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPWhen done well, software is invisible.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPIt 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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPFirst, 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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI 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 STROUSTRUPHowever, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI 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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPAnybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPCertainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPOur civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
BJARNE STROUSTRUPWith 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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPMy 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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThere is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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