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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.
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Cad Support Tools
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
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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

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