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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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

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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