“I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.” ThinkingObjectsArtificial IntelligenceArtificialHoaxes Author:Alexander Stepanov
“I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it” KnowsBelieveStillsEndsAbstractionI Still Believe Author:Alexander Stepanov
“Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface” ComplexityAssertionInterfaces Author:Alexander Stepanov
“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” ThinkingStatesObjectsProgrammingAlgorithmsBinary Author:Alexander Stepanov
“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.” ShouldTryingYearsUseUsedUnderstoodMechanismInheritanceFlawed Author:Alexander Stepanov
