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Proof by analogy is fraud.

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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
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
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
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 would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
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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