However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThe standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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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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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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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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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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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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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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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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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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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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