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

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.

An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only.

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

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

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.

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.