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.
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.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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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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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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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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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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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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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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[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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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one 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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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