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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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

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