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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering 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
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
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
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers

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