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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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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Effort Java May
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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
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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Able Organization Treat
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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