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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPAn organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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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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It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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[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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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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