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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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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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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
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

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.

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