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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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

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