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From: delft@fwi.uva.nl (Andre van Delft)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: "Paradigm" (Re: OOP in C)
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Date: 13 Dec 89 22:00:57 GMT
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In article <14394@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd) writes:
>Unfortunately, most people that use the term don't use it in the Kuhnian
>sense.  I'm afraid, like ``methodology'' (originally the study of methods),
>it is one of those words that once was defined to mean one thing, and has
>now been totally redefined by our field.

I partially agree. ``methodology'' has not been redefined by our field;
it still means: the study of methods. It is just that many people in
our field don't know what they are talking about, when they say
``methodology''.    #:^)|

As a consequence of the misuse of this word, *real* methodology is hardly
studied at all, in computer science.

(Read M.A. Jacksons opinion in Software Development, Prentice Hall)

Andre van Delft     *****     After all, aren't we just humble programmers ?