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First, I’d like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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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Insufficient Long Running Trying
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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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Effort Java May
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
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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