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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems
Message-ID: <20118@alice.att.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 11:23:59 EST
References: <9103070342.AA07462@.nextserver.cs.stthomas.edu.cs.stthomas.edu ..> <1991Mar22.120946.1@happy.colorado.edu> <299@orbit.gtephx.UUCP>
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In article <299@orbit.gtephx.UUCP> barriost@gtephx.UUCP (Tim Barrios) writes:

>   add 1 to a.       english, business
>   a := a + 1;       -- math, engineering, science
>   a++;              // made-up; worrying too much about the underlying target

Why do you suppose programmers use the word "increment" so often?
Could it be that it's a useful concept?
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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com