Re: Fake scientist Bertrand Meyer (puke) exposed at http://WWW.NETSCUM.NET/meyerb0.html

[ben@teco.net]

In article <199705180356.UAA00953@fat.doobie.com> nobody@huge.cajones.com (Huge Cajones Remailer) writes:

>Said on the 'net about Meyer: 
>
>From: Ian Johnston <ian.johnston@ubs.com>
>Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
>Subject: Re: GC performance (was Performance Comparison C++/Eiffel)
>Message-ID: <53ai4d$mb2@ubszh.fh.zh.ubs.com>
>
>Bertrand Meyer wrote:
>>
>> Ian Johnston writes in reply to Paul Johnson:
>>
>> > The (as yet unsubstantiated) figures actually refute your argument.
>>
>> A real gem.
>
>Person A makes a statement and says that it is almost impossible
>to produce figures to back up this statement.
>
>Person B quotes some as yet unsubstantiated figures that, if
>substantiated, would refute person A's argument.
>
>Person C considers this a "real gem".
>
>Marvellous intellectual discussion here.
>
>Ian

Is this the best you can come up with? In all my discussions with
Bertrand, I have found him to be the most courteous person on all of
Usenet, even when I have been critical of what he has said.

I must say, he has earned my respect.

And no matter where his ideas came from, he was the only one clever
enough to popularise them, and his book on OO contruction is a
classic, even though I am not a particular Eiffel fan, prefering the
Lisp languages myself.