Polymorphism Quotes

My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.

Object-oriented programming as it emerged in Simula 67 allows software structure to be based on real-world structures, and gives programmers a powerful way to simplify the design and construction of complex programs.

When there is no type hierarchy you don't have to manage the type hierarchy.

Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.

One of the things that Java is good at is giving you this homogeneous view of a reality that's usually very heterogeneous.

I made up the term "object-oriented," and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

I'm a chameleon.

Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.

I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most solids occur in typically one or maybe two or three different forms, and ice has approximately 15 different crystal forms, as well as two forms that are called amorphous, which means without any shape at all.