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When done well, software is invisible.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple 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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support

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