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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

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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
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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Funny Humorous Witty
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
[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

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