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From: lgm@cbnewsc.att.com (lawrence.g.mayka)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: OOP and estimating
Message-ID: <1990Jun29.001529.21260@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 29 Jun 90 00:15:29 GMT
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In article <3169@stl.stc.co.uk> "Tom Thomson" <tom@stl.stc.co.uk> writes:
>provide the escape too).  It's a pity that they don't provide decent
>abstraction and inheritance mechanisms too - maybe a functional OO
>language (a contradiction in terms?) would be the answer to our dreams?

A grand unification of functional and OO programming would probably
look a lot like the Common Lisp Object System:  A generic function's
behavior would vary according to the class(es) of its argument(s).


	Lawrence G. Mayka
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	lgm@iexist.att.com

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