Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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[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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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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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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