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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

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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
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 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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