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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Bjarne Stroustrup

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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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Important Language Simple Use
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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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Details Find Head Need
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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

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