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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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
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

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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