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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

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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

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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