Proof by analogy is fraud.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPToo 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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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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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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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