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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.

Bjarne Stroustrup

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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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Details Find Head Need
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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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Fall Inspiration Real
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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

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