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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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
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
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
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
[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
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking

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