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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

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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
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
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
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
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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