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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPYou can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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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++ 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.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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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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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