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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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 connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years

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