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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles

Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

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