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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
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 standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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

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