Bjarne Stroustrup
10 quotes
“Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. p. 693”
“Proof by analogy is fraud. p. 692”
“just one little global variable”
“C++ Q&A Community Event with Bjarne Stroustrup”
“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. Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages (2009) by Federico Biancuzzi, p. 14”
“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. As quoted in”
“The Problem with Programming”
“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. PDF: Notes to the Reader, The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition (2000), p. 9”
“Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup”
“And no, that smaller and cleaner language is not Java or C#.”