Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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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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.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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