Quotes by Bertrand Meyer - Page 1

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good
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Cobol
Language
Looks
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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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Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
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Computer Programmers
Documentation
Programming
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Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
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Firsts
Perfect
Programming
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There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
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Computer
Initials
Two
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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
Indispensable
Roles
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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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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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Quality
Technology
Computer
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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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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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Known
Practice
Should
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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
Gears
Thinking
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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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Found
Language
Used
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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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Debate
Fighting
Opinion
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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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Bridges
Engineering
Writing
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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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Celebrate
Facts
Use
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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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