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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. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

Bjarne Stroustrup's Popular Quotes

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 h…

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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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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 h…

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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

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

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A program that has not been tested does not work.

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

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

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

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