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.
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.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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