Alexander Stepanov Quotes

• I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used.

  Alexander Stepanov

  Years, Trying, Use

  Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

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• I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.

  Alexander Stepanov

  Thinking, Hoaxes, Artificial Intelligence

  Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

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• Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm

  Alexander Stepanov

  Thinking, Algorithms, States

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• Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

  Alexander Stepanov

  Complexity, Interfaces, Assertion

  "C Programming". Interview with Al Stevens, collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca. 1995.

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• I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it

  Alexander Stepanov

  Believe, Ends, Stills

  "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006". June 2007.

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• I find OOP technically unsound.

  Alexander Stepanov

  Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

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