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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.

Bjarne Stroustrup

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
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
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple

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