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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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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Stories Technology Wish
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years

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