Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification.
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such ficklen… - Bertrand Meyer
Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such ficklen…
- Bertrand Meyer
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. - Bertrand Meyer
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.
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to! - Bertrand Meyer
Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not … - Bertrand Meyer
I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not …
I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing g… - Bertrand Meyer
I think Smalltalk is inappropriate for serious industrial developments. After all, run time is a little late to find out whether you have a landing g…
The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable - Bertrand Meyer
The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable
Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. - Bertrand Meyer
Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience… - Bertrand Meyer
Careful as they may be, developers of Eiffel libraries will always run into cases in which, after releasing a library class, they suddenly experience…
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 hav… - Bertrand Meyer
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 hav…
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