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Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

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
Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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Garbage Language Littles
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
Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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Language Person Professional Should
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 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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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Good Objects Program Very
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
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Design Forget Lost
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
However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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Java Language Serious
Corporate practices can be directly hostile to individuals with exceptional skills and initiative in technical matters. I consider such management of technical people cruel and wasteful.
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Initiative Matters People Practice Wasteful
The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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Library Standard Tools

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