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I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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 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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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

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