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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

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
[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
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
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
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
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

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