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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good 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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
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
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
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
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost

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