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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

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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
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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Fall Inspiration Real
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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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Funny Humorous Witty
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman

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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