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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

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