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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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Insufficient Long Running Trying
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
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
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
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
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking

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