Alexander Stepanov famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I find OOP technically unsound.
-- Alexander Stepanov
I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence.
-- Alexander Stepanov

#Thinking #Hoaxes #Artificial Intelligence
I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it
-- Alexander Stepanov

#Believe #Ends #Stills
Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface
-- Alexander Stepanov

#Complexity #Interfaces
Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their state are objects. And then there are things that are not objects. A binary search is not an object. It is an algorithm
-- Alexander Stepanov

#Thinking #Algorithms #Programming
I spent years trying to find some use for inheritance and virtuals, before I understood why that mechanism was fundamentally flawed and should not be used
-- Alexander Stepanov

#Years #Trying #Use

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