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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
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
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
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
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
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

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