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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPAnybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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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.
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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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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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