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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
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 is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
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

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