Anton Simakov

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The Rust Programming Language, 3rd Edition

by Steve Klabnik

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Secure Data Structures and Algorithms with C++: Walls and Mirrors

by Frank M. Carrano

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Expert C++: Become a proficient programmer by learning coding best practices with C++17 and C++20's latest features, 2nd Edition

by Marcelo Guerra Hahn

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Anton’s Quotes

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.”
― Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

tags: complexity, elegance, simple, simplicity, virtue

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“Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

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“I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself "Dijkstra would not have liked this", well, that would be enough immortality for me.”
― Edsger W. Dijkstra

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“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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