There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

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

Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

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.

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.

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.