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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
[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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

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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