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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
[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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