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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

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
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 standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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

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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