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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
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
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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