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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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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Important Language Simple Use
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
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
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
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 would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
[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

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