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

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

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.

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

My impression was and is that many programming languages and tools represent solutions looking for problems, and I was determined that my work should not fall into that category. Thus, I follow the literature on programming languages and the debates about programming languages primarily looking for ideas for solutions to problems my colleagues and I have encountered in real applications. Other programming languages constitute a mountain of ideas and inspiration-but it has to be mined carefully to avoid featurism and inconsistencies.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

I find languages that support just one programming paradigm constraining