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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

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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Connections Errors Thinking
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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 designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
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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Efficient Keys Safe Together
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
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
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
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers

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