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"My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities."
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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers."

"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."

"We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."

"As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers."

"The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs."

"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."

"It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."

"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."

"We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers."
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"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"First, I'd like to see the basic tools such as compilers, debuggers, profilers, database interfaces, GUI builders, CAD tools, and so forth fully support the ISO standard."
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