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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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 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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Details Find Head Need
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
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
[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
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
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
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious

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