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

Bjarne Stroustrup

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
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
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
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
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
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

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