Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPC++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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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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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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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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First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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[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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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