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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

First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
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
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
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
[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
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People 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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy

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