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"It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers."
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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules."

"A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline."

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."

"Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things."

"That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things."

"Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them."

"A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules."
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"Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
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