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Programming Quotes by Bertrand Meyer
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.
- 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…
- Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
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