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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Bjarne Stroustrup

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
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
Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Clever Dirty Thinking
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though

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