Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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More Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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