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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

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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
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

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