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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering 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
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
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields

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