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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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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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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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Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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