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

Bjarne Stroustrup

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

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