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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
[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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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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Google Quality Thinking

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