Alexander Stepanov Quotes & Sayings

Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface — 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 — 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 — Alexander Stepanov

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

Good software results from the proper organization of components, not from syntactic or semantic restrictions. Meanings — Alexander Stepanov

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