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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
[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
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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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory

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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