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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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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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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Funny Humorous Witty
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code.
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Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.
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Bored Errors Programmers
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
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.
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Nobody should call themselves a professional if they only knew one language.
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However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.
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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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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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Our civilization depends critically on software, and we have a dangerously low degree of professionalism in the computer fields
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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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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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Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code.
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