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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.
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Problem Views Way
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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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Connections Errors Thinking
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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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Carefully Feaaturism Ideas Inconsistences Promoted
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
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms

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