Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Funny, Witty, Humorous

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, www.stroustrup.com.

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If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Simple, Thinking, Misunderstood

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The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

Bjarne Stroustrup

Fundamentals, Development, Way

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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Ideas, Helping, Clue

Interview with Jason Pontin, www.technologyreview.com. January 1, 2007.

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A program that has not been tested does not work.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Doe, Program, Tested

Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Technology, Wish, Stories

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When done well, software is invisible.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Done, Invisible, Software

"Inventor of C++ reflects on 25 years of the programming language". Interview with Micahel Calore, www.wired.co.uk. October 15, 2010.

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The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

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Law, Firsts, Computer

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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Learning, Simplicity, Important

Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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It's easy to win forgiveness for being wrong; being right is what gets you into real trouble.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Pain, Real, Winning

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Proof by analogy is fraud.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Analogies, Proof, Fraud

Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

Bjarne Stroustrup

Independent, Java, Platforms

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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Perfect, Language, Salesman

"C++ 0x - An Overview at University of Waterloo Computer Science Club".

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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Bjarne Stroustrup

Littles, Garbage, Language

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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

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Reading, Book, Thought Provoking

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Creativity, Simple, Engineering

"Masterminds of Programming Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages". Book by Shane Warden, Federico Biancuzzi, March 2009.

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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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Civilization, Degrees, Fields

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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

Organization, Able, Treats

"The C++ Programming Language". Book by Bjarne Stroustrup, October 1985.

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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Design, Forget, Lost

Bjarne Stroustrup (2000). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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"Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Legacy, Alternatives, Code

"Porting to the Symbian Platform: Open Mobile Development in C/C++". Book by Mark Wilcox, 2009.

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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Errors, Bored, Programmers

Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Order, Class, Depth

Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

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Program, Very Good, Objects

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Thinking, Ideas, Two

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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Doe, Answers, Tests

Bjarne Stroustrup (1997). “The C++ Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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