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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
[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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very

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