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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

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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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
[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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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 find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
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 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
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
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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