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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

Bjarne Stroustrup

You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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

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