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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Bjarne Stroustrup

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
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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Important Language Simple Use
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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Cad Support Tools
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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Clue Helping Ideas
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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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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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Efficient Keys Safe Together
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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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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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Class Depth Order
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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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Able Organization Treat
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking

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