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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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
This evolution may compromise Java’s claim of being simpler than C++, but my guess is that the effort will make Java a better language than it is today.
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Effort Java May
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple

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