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An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
[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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
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
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
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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

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