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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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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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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