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.
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.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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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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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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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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