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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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Efficient Keys Safe Together
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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Class Depth Order
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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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Believe Discussing People Simple
[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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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
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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Insufficient Long Running Trying
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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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Arrogant Benefits Technology
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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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Details Find Head Need
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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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Stories Technology Wish

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