[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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPPersonally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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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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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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