C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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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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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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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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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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 assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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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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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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