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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

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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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

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