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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPMost of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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I 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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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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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 most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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