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

Bjarne Stroustrup

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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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Funny Humorous Witty
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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

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