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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
[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
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks 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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very

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