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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPClearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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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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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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.
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