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Proof by analogy is fraud.

Bjarne Stroustrup

[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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
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
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
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
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking

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