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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

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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
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
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
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

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