Bjarne Stroustrup on C++ and why software sucks
MIT Technology Review interviews Bjarne Stroustrup on C++ and why modern software is so bad. Some memorable quotes on why software is bad: “People reward developers who deliver software that is cheap, buggy, and first. That’s because people want fancy new gadgets now.” On problems developers might have with C++: “Often, when people have trouble with C++, the real problem is that they don’t have appropriate libraries - or that they can’t find the libraries that are available.” On some developers frequently complaining about C++: “There are just two kinds of languages: the ones everybody complains about and the ones nobody uses.”
December 7th, 2006 at 5:39 pm #Bjarne Stroustrup on aspect-oriented programming and .NET - Alex Moskalyuk Blog
[...] After the first series of Bjarne Stroustrup interview on C++ in Technology Review, the magazine released part 2 of the interview. As you can tell, he’s not a believer in aspect-oriented programming: I hope you didn’t put too much money on it! I don’t see aspect-oriented programming escaping the “academic ghetto” any day soon, and if it does, it will be less pervasive than OO. When it works, aspect-oriented programming is elegant, but it’s not clear how many applications significantly benefit from its use. [...]