For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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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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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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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.
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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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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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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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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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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