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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

Bjarne Stroustrup

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
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
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real

For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

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