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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
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
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
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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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
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
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
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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