The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Any verbose and tedious solution is error-prone because programmers get bored.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining

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

Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.

C++ is my favorite garbage collected language because it generates so little garbage

Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.