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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
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
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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
[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
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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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