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

Bjarne Stroustrup

There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
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
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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

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