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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple 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
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
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
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

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