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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

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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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Cad Support Tools
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
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
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality 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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
[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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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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