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.
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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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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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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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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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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