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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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
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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools

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