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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
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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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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
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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Effort Java May
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
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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Insufficient Long Running Trying
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
[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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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
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
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
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
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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Arrogant Benefits Technology
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

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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