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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

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