An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPHowever, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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When done well, software is invisible.
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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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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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