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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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"It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers."
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"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything."
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"We rest our case on the production numbers."
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"We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers."
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"I didn't go to high school. I think that after you learn to read and write and do your numbers and flush the toilet behind yourself, you don't need no more schoolin'. You need to get out in the water and swim."
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"When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers."
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"Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish."
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"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
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"Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next."
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"Early numbers are always wrong."
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"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."
Design

"I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries."
Libraries

"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."
People

"Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem."
Right

"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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"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."
Flaws

"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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"I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining."
Programming

"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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"Personally, I look forward to better tools for analyzing C++ source code."
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