Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPThere’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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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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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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It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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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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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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When done well, software is invisible.
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