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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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 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
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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Funny Humorous Witty
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
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

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