Alexander Stepanov Professions : Author Born : November 16, 1950 Browse All Authors Top 6 quotes by Alexander Stepanov 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 use trying years I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as artificial intelligence. Alexander Stepanov hoaxes artificial-intelligence thinking 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 algorithms states thinking I find OOP technically unsound. Alexander Stepanov I still believe in abstraction, but now I know that one ends with abstraction, not starts with it Alexander Stepanov stills ends believe Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface Alexander Stepanov assertion interfaces complexity Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors