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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
[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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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

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