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Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
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.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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