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

Bjarne Stroustrup

For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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 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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
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

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