Responding to Daniel T....
Try and find and experienced OO developer who would advocate that large, complex generalizations are a good practice. You can write lousy programs in any paradigm. The likelihood increases when you use the most technically deficient of all the OOPLs. (If those developers had used Smalltalk, I'll bet their defect rates would have been substantially lower even if they weren't very good OO developers.)
Careful, the paper never claims that C++ produced more defects than C or Pascal. It only claims that the defects found in the C++ program were more costly to fix. That is a very big difference.
You're right. That's what I get for responding from memory of my original reading of the paper. The mind is the second thing to go.
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