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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPMost of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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 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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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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When done well, software is invisible.
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