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When done well, software is invisible.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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 connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
[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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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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