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.
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.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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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
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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