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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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

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