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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPIt is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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