The role of a trainer or consultant is to empower the customer, not to make himself indispensable

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.

C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good

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.

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

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

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.