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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
[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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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

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