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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform

Bjarne Stroustrup

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
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
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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Google Quality Thinking
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory

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