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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
[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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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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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
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

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