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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Bjarne Stroustrup

If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years

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