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The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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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Language Programming Support
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools

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