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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support

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