Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
BJARNE STROUSTRUPPeople 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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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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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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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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I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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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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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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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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