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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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Efficient Keys Safe Together
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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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Google Quality Thinking
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
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

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