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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields

Bjarne Stroustrup

Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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
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
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof

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