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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
[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
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
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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Effort Java May
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
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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Fall Inspiration Real
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
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

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