Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!pa.dec.com!jrdzzz.jrd.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!jit345!diamond From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel Subject: Re: On classification Message-ID: <1991Apr22.082519.7276@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 22 Apr 91 08:25:19 GMT References: <527@eiffel.UUCP> <1135@tetrauk.UUCP> <405@smds.UUCP> Sender: usenet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (USENET News System) Reply-To: diamond@jit345.enet@tkou02.enet.dec.com (Norman Diamond) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 27 In article <405@smds.UUCP> rh@smds.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes: >In article , chl@cs.man.ac.uk (Charles Lindsey) writes: >>In <1135@tetrauk.UUCP> rick@tetrauk.UUCP (Rick Jones) writes: >>>|Ergo, mammals are dinosaurs also, and hence so are we. >>>I'm not a zoologist, but I always understood that the mammals were an entirely >>>separate species which evolved during the dinosaur era, and only flourished >>>after the dinosaurs' decline. >>Yes, but the first mammal had to evolve from something, and that something >>was a dinosaur. >It is puzzling to me why this is here, rather than in talk.origins which >is the natural home of bogus science. Well, meta-discussions about possibly mistaken science are different from possibly mistaken science, and possibly mistaken science is different from pure garbage, so it's not clear that talk.origins is the correct place. >Perhaps the intent is to illustrate >the consequences of erroneous class inheritance. This seems very likely, considering how this thread got started. Do you realize who you were flaming? For a hint, look at the references line, and for another hint, ... uh, I can't exactly say take a leap of "faith," but you know what I mean. -- Norman Diamond diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.