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

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

- Alexander Stepanov

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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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Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface

- Alexander Stepanov

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

- Alexander Stepanov

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