Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPC makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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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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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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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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[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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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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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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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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