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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

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
[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

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