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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good language construct in C… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9 users. But now a… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters… — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. — Bertrand Meyer Copy Share Image
