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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

“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
[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
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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Effort Java May
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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

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