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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.

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
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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.
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Details Find Head Need
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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

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