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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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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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
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
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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
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
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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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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“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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