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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Bjarne Stroustrup

You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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
[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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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