Bertrand Meyer Quotes

• You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

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  Technology, Quality, Computer

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• Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.

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  Documentation, Programming, Computer Programmers

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• There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

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  Two, Computer, Initials

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• Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

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  Doe, Firsts, Programming

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• C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

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  Looks, Cobol, Language

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• Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

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  Quality, Doe, Littles

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• Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

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  Writing, Engineering, Bridges

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• Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.

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  Class, Etc, Should

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• The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

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  Empowering, Roles, Indispensable

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• Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

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  Perfect, Firsts, Programming

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• Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience what in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.

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  Running, Clever, Party

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• As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.

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  Use, Facts, Celebrate

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• Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C we would have used it as well.

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  Language, Used, Found

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• Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

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  Practice, Should, Known

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• I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

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  Fighting, Opinion, Debate

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• I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing gear.

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  Running, Thinking, Gears

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