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Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

Bjarne Stroustrup

If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles

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