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

Bjarne Stroustrup

“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
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
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

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