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

Bjarne Stroustrup

Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.
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Class Depth Order
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
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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Important Learning Simplicity
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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 find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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

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