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The Design and Evolution of C++

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“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

Bjarne Stroustrup book The C++ Programming Language

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that, <br class="br">Source: The C++ Programming Language

“Pointers are really good for pointing to things.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

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“C++ protects against accident, not against fraud.”

Bjarne Stroustrup book The C++ Programming Language

The C++ Programming Language

“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.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

[Federico Biancuzzi, Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages, https://books.google.com/books?id=yB1WwURwBUQC&pg=PA14, 21 March 2009, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", 978-0-596-55550-4, 14]

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“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”

Bjarne Stroustrup

"Bjarne Stroustrup - The Essence of C++" talk on 28 April 2014 at the University of Edinburgh's George Square Lecture Theatre.

Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes about problems

“The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language (Third Edition and Special Edition) Notes to the Reader page 9, 2012-04-28, http://web.archive.org/web/20091128074415/http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_notes.pdf#page=7, 2009-11-28 http://www2.research.att.com/~bs/3rd_notes.pdf#page=7,

““I invented auto in 83 and it had incompatibility problems, so I had to wait 25 years””

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, 2011-02-07 http://www.eptacom.net/pubblicazioni/pub_eng/stroustr.html,

Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

“Everyone writes code as they’re used to, and that’s ugly.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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. 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.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup), MIT Technology Review, November 28, 2006, Jason Pontin, 2007-11-15 http://technologyreview.com/Infotech/17831/page3/,

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

in C++ 0x - An Overview at University of Waterloo Computer Science Club http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/C++0x%20-%20An%20Overview.html

“An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.”

Bjarne Stroustrup book The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 713]

“A program that has not been tested does not work.”

Bjarne Stroustrup book The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 712]

“Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out.”

Bjarne Stroustrup book The Design and Evolution of C++

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The Design and Evolution of C++, 207]. A later clarification adds, "And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#." Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“Far too often, "software engineering" is neither engineering nor about software.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2011-04-11 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“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

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“"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

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

Bjarne Stroustrup book The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 693]

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

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: What is "legacy code"?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#legacy,

“There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup), MIT Technology Review, November 28, 2006, Jason Pontin, 2007-11-15 http://technologyreview.com/Infotech/17831/page3/,

“Being good in just one thing it’s not enough, you have to be sufficiently good in everything.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

Conference Madrid 2019

“Keep simple things simple.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

On his homepage http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that, Bjarne Stroustrup states that he did say the above sentence, but also adds "I very much doubt that the sentiment is original." Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, 2007-11-15 http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that,

“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.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

C QA Community Event with Bjarne Stroustrup, 2014-08-27 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDqQudbtuqo,

“Proof by analogy is fraud.”

Bjarne Stroustrup book The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 692]

“Maybe "just one little global variable" isn't too unmanageable, but that style leads to code that is useless except to its original programmer”

Bjarne Stroustrup book The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 467]

“The best is the enemy of the good.”

Bjarne Stroustrup

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