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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
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Efficient Keys Safe Together
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
[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
There’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
Other 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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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted

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