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Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
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
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
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
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.

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