"Ask not first what the system does; ask…" — Bertrand Meyer
"Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!"
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12 Quotes by Bertrand Meyer
Bertrand Meyer has 12 quotes on this site.
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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same…
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Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything…
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Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.
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Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
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There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
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I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one…
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Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale…
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Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming languages and I am sure that if we had found a good…
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Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library…
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Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
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As Mr. Nagle so competently points out, almost no one uses Eiffel; in fact until recently there were only 9…
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