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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

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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Clue Helping Ideas
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
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
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman

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