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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
I like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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
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

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