"Eiffel borrows quite openly from several earlier programming……" — Bertrand Meyer
"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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Bertrand Meyer
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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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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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Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
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More Borrows Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
— George Horne
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The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
— William Arthur Ward
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Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements…
— Henri Bergson
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Genius Borrows nobly.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The government doesn't save enough, it borrows too much and it doesn't invest enough in the next generation. It's like…
— Maya MacGuineas
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It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain
— Anna Garlin Spencer
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The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far…
— Matthew Continetti
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Talent borrows, genius steals!
— Oscar Wilde
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Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It…
— Lee Ritenour
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The South creates the civilizations, the North conquers them, ruins them, borrows from them, spreads them: this is one summary…
— Will Durant
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Virtue cannot be followed but for herself, and if one sometimes borrows her mask to some other purpose, she presently…
— Michel de Montaigne
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