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Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
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
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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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