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Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
[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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles

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