Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPProof by analogy is fraud.
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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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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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