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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
[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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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
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
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
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
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
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
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
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
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

If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

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