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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Bjarne Stroustrup

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
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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Believe Discussing People Simple
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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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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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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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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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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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Class Depth Order
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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