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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

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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
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
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
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
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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