Proof by analogy is fraud.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPOther programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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.
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First, 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.
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This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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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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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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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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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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