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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

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
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
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 would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard 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
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
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
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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

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