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From: chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object
Subject: Re: On classification
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Date: 15 Apr 91 09:09:35 GMT
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In <527@eiffel.UUCP> bertrand@eiffel.UUCP (Bertrand Meyer) writes:

>Here are some extracts from an article entitled ``Dinosaur Dilemmas''

>Consistent with this view, the editors include the birds among the
>dinosaurs, as they must on cladistic grouds, because the birds are
>thought to be descended from a particular group of small carnivorous
>dinosaurs.

Ergo, mammals are dinosaurs also, and hence so are we.