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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Bjarne Stroustrup

You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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 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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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