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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.

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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Funny Humorous Witty
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
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
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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Language Perfect Salesman
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
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
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

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