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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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