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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!

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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