If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPOther 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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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