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From: yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: What is OOP / OOD
Message-ID: <1474@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 14:23:56 GMT
References: <1989Oct2.161552.14306@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <9450002@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost)
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In article <9450002@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:
>At least read several different books, ... so that all the dogma you
>get exposed to from various sources will start to cancel out.  Finally,
>spend more than a superficially amount of time programming in the different
>languages ...

It's too bad that 99% of us will never have time to do these things
nor have the authority to pick the language we prefer to use, and
so what we end up using will be whatever language musters the most
PR/buzzword/advertising/backward-compatibility/hearsay/availability
momentum.

 --dave yost