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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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

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