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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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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Connections Errors Thinking
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
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard 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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple

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