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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
[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
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
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
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers

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