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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.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
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
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
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
[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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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Language Programming Support
You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.
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Code Good Interface Need Really
There is no one “root of all evil” in software development. Design is hard in many ways.
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Creativity Engineering Simple
“Legacy code” often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling.
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Alternatives Code Legacy
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
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
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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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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