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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

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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple 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 would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard 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
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
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
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

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