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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThere’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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