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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

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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’s an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.
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Stories Technology Wish
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
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
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
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
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support

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