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Yes, but no, I don't recall which question elicited that answer. 'If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem'. Yes see Why doesn't C++ have garbage collection? and 'C++ Is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage'. 'People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't'. Of course, all 'there are only two' quotesДЄ good analogy is an excellent way of illustratingДЄn idea, but far too often such analogies are not accompanied by solid reasoning, data, etc. 'There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain aboutДЄgain, I very much doubt that the sentiment is original. I'm sure the sentiment wasn't original, and probably notД®ven the overall phrasing someone must have thought of that before me. I said that after a frustrating attempt to use a 'feature-rich' telephone To use as my telephone my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out 'I have always wished for my computer to be as easy That emphasized the cleaner and more effective practices over archaic uses I was thinking of programming styles, libraries and programming environments I was pointing out that the C++ semantics is much cleaner than its syntax. The quote occurs in a section entitled 'Beyond Files and Syntax'. Yes, that quote can be found on page 207 ofДЄnd no, that smaller and cleaner language is not 'Within C++, there is a much smaller and cleaner language struggling to get out'. One problem with very supporting and protectiveД®nvironments is that the hard problems may be discovered too late orДЄlso, a rare problem is harder to find than a frequent one Someone who avoids the simple problems may simply be heading forДЄ not-so-simple one. As you protect people fromДangers, they get themselves into new and less obvious problems. What people tend to miss, is that what I said there about C++ is toД®xtent true for all powerful languages. Yes, I said something like that (in 1986 or so). In the foot C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole There are undoubtedly more genuine quotes 'out there' but I can only confirm the ones I know of. Made up ones, misquote, and poor translations.ДЄlso, in some cases, I provide some context for a quote. My main motivation for posting this is to confirm genuine quotes so as to help people distinguish them from

In strongly typed interpreted languages with dynamic datatypes, most variable references require a level of indirection: first the type of the variable is checked for safety, and then the pointer to the actual value is dereferenced and acted on.Here is a collection of quotes from my writings, talks, and interviews. Delegation is another classic example of an indirection pattern. Higher-level examples of indirection are the design patterns of the proxy and the proxy server. Object-oriented programming makes use of indirection extensively, a simple example being dynamic dispatch.

It is always possible to add another level of indirection. It is easier to move a problem around than it is to solve it. Humorous Internet memorandum RFC 1925 insists that: Kevlin Henney's corollary to this is, '.except for the problem of too many layers of indirection.' In some older computer architectures, indirect words supported a variety of more-or-less complicated addressing modes.ДЄ famous aphorism of David Wheeler goes: 'All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection' this is often deliberately mis-quoted with 'abstraction layer' substituted for 'level of indirection'. A stored pointer that exists to provide a reference to an object by double indirection is called an indirection node. For example, accessing a variable through the use of a pointer. The most common form of indirection is the act of manipulating a value through its memory address. In computer programming, indirection is the ability to reference something using a name, reference, or container instead of the value itself. Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:

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