Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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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.
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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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