You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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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[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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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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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With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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