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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

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
[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
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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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