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 STROUSTRUPSome 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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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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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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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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