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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

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering 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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms

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