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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPPeople who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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