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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

Bjarne Stroustrup

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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 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
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms

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