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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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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Cad Support Tools
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
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
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
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
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 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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