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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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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Arrogant Benefits Technology
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
“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
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

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