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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
[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
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
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
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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

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

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