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 STROUSTRUPAlways think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good 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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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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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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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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