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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.

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
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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Too many managers and executives try to reduce programming to a low-level assembly-line activity. That’s inefficient, wasteful, costly in the long run, and inhumane to programmers.
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Insufficient Long Running Trying
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
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
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
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
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
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools

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