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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Bjarne Stroustrup

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
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
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

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