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"A program that has not been tested does not work."
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Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language. He led the Large-scale Programming Research department at Bell Labs, served as a professor of computer science at Texas A&M University, and spent over a decade at Morgan Stanley while also being a visiting professor at Columbia University. Since 2022 he has been a full professor at Columbia
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"Legacy code" is a term often used derogatorily to characterize code that is written in a language or style that (1) the speaker/writer consider outdated and/or (2) is competing with something sold/promoted by the speaker/writer. "Legacy code" often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling."
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"Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out."
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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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"Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost."
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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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