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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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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Cad Support 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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should

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