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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When done well, software is invisible.
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For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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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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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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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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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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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Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.
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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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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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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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Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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