Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
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'How to test?' is a question that cannot be answered in general. 'When to test?' however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.
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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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I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.
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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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If you do anything useful it will haunt you forever after, and if you have a major success you get decades of hard manual labor - meaning you have to work on the manual.
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Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.
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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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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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My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naïve or a salesman.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.
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After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
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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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If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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I'm convinced that you could design a language about a tenth of the size of C++ (whichever way you measure size) providing roughly what C++ does.
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One of the things I really like about programming languages is that it's the perfect excuse to stick your nose into any field. So if you're interested in high energy physics and the structure of the universe, being a programmer is one of the best ways to get in there. It's probably easier than becoming a theoretical physicist
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.