There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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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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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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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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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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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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