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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
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
[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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy

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