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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

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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
“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
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years

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