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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy

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