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Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Bjarne Stroustrup

For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
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Dangerous Language Program Think
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
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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Clue Helping Ideas
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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Misunderstood Simple Thinking
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
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
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
[Corporate programming] is often done to the point where the individual is completely submerged in corporate “culture” with no outlet for unique talents and skills.
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Outlet Practice Skills Unique
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.
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Cad Support Tools
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
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
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
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
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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
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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