You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPYou can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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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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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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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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