There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
BJARNE STROUSTRUP[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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