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Subject: Re: "Paradigm" (Re: OOP in C)
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Date: 12 Dec 89 22:39:53 GMT
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In article <11294@goofy.megatest.UUCP> djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes:
>Okay, now *everybody* look up "paradigm" in the dictionary. Don't
>put it off. Do it now.

Paradigm: a pattern, exemplar, example. (Oxford English Dictionary)

Actually, I don't have the OED in my office, but I did find the
definition at the start of Robert Floyd's Turing Award Address
from 1978 entitled "The Paradigms of Programming."  An excellent
paper, and one I heartily recommend. 


Mike Lutz
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