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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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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Class Depth Order
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted

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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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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