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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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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