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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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Funny Humorous Witty
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
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
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
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
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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

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