Alexander Stepanov quotes

“I find OOP technically unsound.”
-- Alexander Stepanov

Source : Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

“I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.”
-- Alexander Stepanov

Source : Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

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“I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it”
-- Alexander Stepanov

Source : "Evolving a language in and for the real world: C++ 1991-2006". June 2007.

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“Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface”
-- Alexander Stepanov

Source : "C Programming". Interview with Al Stevens, collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca. 1995.

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“Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm”
-- Alexander Stepanov

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“I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used”
-- Alexander Stepanov

Source : Interview with Graziano Lo Russo, www.stlport.org.

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