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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

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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
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
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools

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