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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

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
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
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
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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
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

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