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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

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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
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
[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
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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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