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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
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
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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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Cad Support Tools
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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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Class Depth Order
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
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
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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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful

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