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Bertrand Meyer Quotes
1.
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.
Bertrand Meyer

2.
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
Bertrand Meyer

3.
Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
Bertrand Meyer

4.
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.
Bertrand Meyer

5.
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.
Bertrand Meyer

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6.
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.
Bertrand Meyer

7.
C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good
Bertrand Meyer

8.
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.
Bertrand Meyer

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9.
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
Bertrand Meyer

10.
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
Bertrand Meyer

11.
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.
Bertrand Meyer

12.
The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable
Bertrand Meyer

13.
Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
Bertrand Meyer

14.
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness
Bertrand Meyer

15.
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.
Bertrand Meyer

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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.
Bertrand Meyer