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

Bjarne Stroustrup

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
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
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
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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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