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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

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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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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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There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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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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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.
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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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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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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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