Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

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.

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.

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

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.

The first law of computer science: Every problem is solved by yet another indirection.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.