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Bertrand Meyer is a renowned computer scientist and author, known for his contributions to the field of software engineering. Born on November 21, 1950, he is the creator of the Eiffel programming language and has conducted extensive research in software design, programming languages, and system architecture.

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“You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.”

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“Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.”

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“Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation.”

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“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 of faith.”

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“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 a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.”

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“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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“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 in French is called esprit de l'escalier or wit of the staircase: a great thought which unfortunately is an afterthought, like a clever reply that would have stunned all the other dinner guests - if only you had thought of it before walking down the stairs after the party is over.”

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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 users. But now a 10th person just started, so we are holding a conference, appropriately titled the TENTH Eiffel USER conference, to celebrate.”

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“Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!”

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Born: November 21, 1950
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