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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
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 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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
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
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

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