People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language. Bjarne Stroustrup Read Quote
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard. Bjarne Stroustrup Read Quote
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities. Bjarne Stroustrup Read Quote
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use. Bjarne Stroustrup Read Quote
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code. Bjarne Stroustrup Read Quote
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. Bjarne Stroustrup Read Quote
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious. Bjarne Stroustrup Read Quote
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good. Bjarne Stroustrup Read Quote
