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From: atherton@unixg.ubc.ca (Bruce Atherton)
Subject: Re: Syntax Change Not Paradigm Shift
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Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 17:43:42 GMT

Of course there is nothing new in Object Oriented Programming that has
not been done before.  There is nothing new in most new ideas, it is
the combination that makes the difference.  Often the combination
seems so obvious in hindsight that many feel sour grapes that they did
not think of it first and downplay the significance of the idea.

Since you think that "high level languages, structured programming,
subroutine libraries, portability, artificial intelligence, and
modular programming" are all scams, I suggest you go back to your
Babbage Analytical Engine.  After all, there is nothing new in computers
that wasn't already available with that, was there.

For myself, I am glad that laguages exist that explicitly aid me in
writing programs the way I have always done.  I don't have to try to
warp the language to my style anymore.
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