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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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
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
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
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
[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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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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Stories Technology Wish
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
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious

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