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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

Bjarne Stroustrup

Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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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Insufficient Long Running Trying
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software

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