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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

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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
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
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
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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

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