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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools

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