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
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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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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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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[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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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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