There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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[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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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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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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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