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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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
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
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
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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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
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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