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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.

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
[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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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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