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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software

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