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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof

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