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

Bjarne Stroustrup

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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

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