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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.

Bjarne Stroustrup

First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
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
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
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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