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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
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
[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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard 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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
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
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

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