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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category.
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Fall Inspiration Real
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
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
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
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

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