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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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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