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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

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
[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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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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