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If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
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

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