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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

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
[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

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