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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

Bjarne Stroustrup

[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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles

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