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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

Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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Civilization Degree Fields
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
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
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
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Class Function Hirerachies Successful Use
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
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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

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