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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.

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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Able Organization Treat
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
[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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy

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