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 STROUSTRUPC++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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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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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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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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