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

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.

I have always felt sympathy towards the biologists who accept to debate creationists. Now I also understand them better; one can fight opinions, not articles of faith.

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 have used it as well.

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

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

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