Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

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

Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot.

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.

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.