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Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem.

Bjarne Stroustrup

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
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
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
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
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
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’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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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