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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
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
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 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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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