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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

When done well, software is invisible.
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Done Invisible Software
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
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
Java isn’t platform independent; it is a platform
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Independent Java Platforms
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
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
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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 like doing research that has an impact. If I went to a company to make what they call ‘real money,’ I’d be just trying to make a system work as fast as possible to meet the product and serice deadlines.
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Company Impact Possible Real Trying
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
I assume that a sufficiently skilled will be able to do anything not explicitly forbidden by the hardware.
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Able Assuming Forbidden
[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
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

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