Bjarne Stroustrup Quotations

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

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries

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.

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

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.

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

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful

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