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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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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 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
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
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
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 find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
There’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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Stories Technology Wish
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

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