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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

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
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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
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
I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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Details Find Head Need
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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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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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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