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

Bjarne Stroustrup

Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.
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Book Provoking Reading Though
People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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Believe Discussing People Simple
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.
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Funny Humorous Witty
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
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking

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

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