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From: lishka@uwslh.UUCP (Controlled by cockatiels)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: The Oo challenge
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Date: 5 Oct 89 02:44:34 GMT
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djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:

>2.   Ethics of "oo" acronyming. (Must the "oo" stand for "object-oriented"?)

No, the "oo" can also stand for "oggled otters."

>P.s.
>   "Ooze" is mine, so hands off, okay?

Sorry, I have in front of me an article from a 1981 Byte on Smalltalk object
oriented virtual memory in which the author Ted Kaehler states that he and
Dan Ingalls "designed and built a virtual memory to support the Smalltalk-74
system called OOZE (Object-Oriented Zoned Environment)."  Therefore, ooze is
already taken.  Personally, I'll take "shoop" (remember the "shoop-shoop"
song...at least I think that was the title...) which stands for "Some
Horrendous Object Oriented Program".  'Nuff said!

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Christopher Lishka                 ...!{rutgers|ucbvax|...}!uwvax!uwslh!lishka
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene                   lishka%uwslh.uucp@cs.wisc.edu
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