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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

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
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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 assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
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 is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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

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