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The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
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
Some software is actually pretty good, by any standard. Think of the Mars Rovers, Google, and the Human Genome Project. Now, that’s quality software!
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Google Quality Thinking
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
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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Stories Technology Wish
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
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
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

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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