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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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 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

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