"The danger in trying to force object-oriented concepts onto a C base is to get an inconsistent construction, impairing the software development process and the quality of the resulting products. A hybrid approach yields hybrid quality. This is why serious reservations may be voiced about the object-oriented extensions of C described in chapter 20. To benefit from object-oriented techniques, one must use a consistent framework, and overcome the limitations of languages such as Fortran or C which regardless of their other characteristics -- were designed for entirely different purposes." Bertrand Meyer, Object-oriented Software Construction, 1988.