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When done well, software is invisible.

Bjarne Stroustrup

“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
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 find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
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
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years

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