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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPDefining 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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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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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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People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Other 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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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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