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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

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
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

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