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.

There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.

If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

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.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.