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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
[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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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

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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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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