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

Bjarne Stroustrup

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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 find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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

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