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

Bjarne Stroustrup

First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
[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
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
“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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking

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