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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
[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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software

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