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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

Bjarne Stroustrup

There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
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
[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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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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