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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

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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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

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