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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
[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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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

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