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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

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
[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
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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 would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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
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

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