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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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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Language Perfect Salesman
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
[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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very

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