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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
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
[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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy

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