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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Bjarne Stroustrup

There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software

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