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

Bjarne Stroustrup

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof

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

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