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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
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
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

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