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

Bjarne Stroustrup

If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
[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
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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Important Language Simple Use
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious

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