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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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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Funny Humorous Witty
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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

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