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 More Quotes by Alexander Stepanov More Quotes From Alexander Stepanov 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
