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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
[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
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools

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