black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.

Bjarne Stroustrup

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Java Language Serious
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Creativity Engineering Simple
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Language Perfect Salesman
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Analyzing Looks Tools
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Stories Technology Wish
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Company Impact Possible Real Trying
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Dangerous Language Program Think
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

Fall Inspiration Real
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Important Language Simple Use
When done well, software is invisible.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Done Invisible Software
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Clue Helping Ideas
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Efficient Keys Safe Together
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Bored Errors Programmers
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

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

Able Organization Treat
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Important Learning Simplicity
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Connections Errors Thinking
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Civilization Degree Fields
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 STROUSTRUP

Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Independent Java Platforms
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Language Programming Support
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Mathematics Science Years
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Awful Beautiful Developed System
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

Cad Support Tools
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Good Objects Program Very
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Book Provoking Reading Though
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.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP

Believe Discussing People Simple

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes