Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
BJARNE STROUSTRUPAn organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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