Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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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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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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