Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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 find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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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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