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

Bjarne Stroustrup

[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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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 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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking

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