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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

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
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
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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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Believe Discussing People Simple
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
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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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