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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

[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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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
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
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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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