C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPJava isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
BJARNE STROUSTRUPC++ 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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPCreativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPProof by analogy is fraud.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPC++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThere are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThere’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 assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThe most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPAnybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPFirst, 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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPOur civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
BJARNE STROUSTRUPPersonally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI 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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