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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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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Clue Helping Ideas
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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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Arrogant Benefits Technology
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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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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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Google Quality Thinking
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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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Effort Java May
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
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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Class Depth Order
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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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Connections Errors Thinking
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
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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Details Find Head Need
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
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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Stories Technology Wish
[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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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
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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Funny Humorous Witty
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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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Important Language Simple Use

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