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From: mnykanen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Multiple Inheritance -- Is It A Luxury?
Message-ID: <2742.26985429@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 9 Jul 90 09:53:45 GMT
References: <15132@reed.UUCP> <268BA8DC.4CD4@intercon.com> <8937@goofy.Apple.COM> <268C032E.5137@intercon.com> <1990Jul2.181147.1672@efi.com> <8967@goofy.Apple.COM> <1990Jul5.223032.14604@efi.com>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <1990Jul5.223032.14604@efi.com>, tim@efi.com (Tim Maroney) writes:
> Object programming is another step towards more human conceptualization
> of tasks.  The whole notion of class inheritance is based on the human
> division of phenomena into categories and subcategories.  Because of
Are you saying that hierarchicality is a fundamental property of human
thought? I think we western 'scientists' have just been educated in the
Aristotelian tradition (although A. himself would have stuck with single
inheritance.. :-) ). This is what you get when making philo/psychological
commitments based on programming practise; conceptually OOP is a mess.
-- 
Matti Nyk{nen
CS Student at Helsinki U, Finland
email: mnykanen@cc.helsinki.FI

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