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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

Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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
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
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
Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won’t get much smarter.
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Mathematics Science Years
Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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Analyzing Looks Tools
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
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
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
There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful – many more.
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Awful Beautiful Developed System
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
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
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
I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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