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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
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
[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
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

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