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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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

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