black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Effort Java May
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Connections Errors Thinking
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Language Person Professional Should
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Clue Helping Ideas
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Language Perfect Salesman
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Design Forget Lost
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Independent Java Platforms
Proof by analogy is fraud.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Analogies Fraud Proof
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Bored Errors Programmers
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Important Learning Simplicity
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Book Provoking Reading Though
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Creativity Engineering Simple
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Garbage Language Littles
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes