Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPJava isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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