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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

If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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

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