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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
[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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very

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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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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