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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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

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