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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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Cad Support Tools
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
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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Class Depth Order
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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Effort Java May
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
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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Arrogant Benefits Technology
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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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Believe Discussing People Simple
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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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Details Find Head Need
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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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Important Language Simple Use
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software

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