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

Bjarne Stroustrup

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
To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit
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Arrogant Benefits Technology
Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.
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Creativity Engineering Evolutionary Satisfactory
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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I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining
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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
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
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
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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
Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.
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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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When done well, software is invisible.
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Proof by analogy is fraud.
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Analogies Fraud Proof
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
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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C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage
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