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Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!

Bjarne Stroustrup

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
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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Class Depth Order
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!

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