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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.

Bjarne Stroustrup

C++ is designed to allow you to express ideas, but if you don’t have ideas or don’t have any clue about how to express them, C++ doesn’t offer much help.
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Clue Helping Ideas
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.
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Connections Errors Thinking
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
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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