If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPTo 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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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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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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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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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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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It 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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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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