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When done well, software is invisible.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very

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