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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

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
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
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
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
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

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