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Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup (/ˈbjɑːrnə ˈstraʊstrʊp/; Danish: [ˈbjɑːnə ˈsdʁʌwˀsdʁɔb]; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, who is most notable for the creation and development of the widely used C++ programming language. He is a visiting professor at Columbia University, and works at Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in New York.

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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.

Class, Depth, Executed, Order, Traversal

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

Belief, Languages, Learning, Merely, Principles, Successful

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Java, Serious, Language, Programming, Flaws

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

Awful, Beautiful, Being Beautiful, Developed, Languages

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

Analyzing, Code, Look, Looks, Tools

I do not think that safety should be bought at the cost of complicating the expression of good solutions to real-life problems.

Real, Thinking, Expression, Solutions, Think

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

Activities, Design, Forget, Human, Lost, Programming

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries

Encourage, Library, Nonproprietary, Standards, Tools

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Analogies, Analogy, Fraud, Proof

I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call 'real money,' I'd be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.

Impact, Make, Money, Real, Trying

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

Aspect, Important, Learning, Simplicity, Single, Software

This evolution may compromise Java's claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.

Claim, Effort, Java, Language, May

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

Computer, Firsts, Law, Problem, Science

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.

Allow, Clue, Designed, Express, Helping, Ideas

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

Good, Objects, Program, Very Good

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Away, Blows, Funny, Humorous, Whole, Witty

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

Science, Years, Mathematics, Ten, Programmers

Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That's inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.

Running, Long, Trying, Inhumane, Inefficient, Programming

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

Misunderstood, Problem, Simple, Think, Thinking

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

Pain, Real, Right, Win, Winning, Wrong

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