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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
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
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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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