Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPI assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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I do keep the main points straight in my head most of the time, and I do know where to find the details when I need them.
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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.
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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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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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