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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

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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

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