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From: garry@ithaca.uucp (Garry Wiegand)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: question about the title of the group....
Message-ID: <1991May5.065737.3445@ithaca.uucp>
Date: 5 May 91 06:57:37 GMT
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In a recent article sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) wrote:
>>Question - is the title of this group a noun or a verb?
>
>The founding fathers certainly had a noun in mind,
>but today - as you probably have noted - it's about a half of each.
>Don't they say that it's a current American fashion "to verb"
>every second noun that wasn't also a verb already?

We have the plain-C style convention that all our routine names are
a verb plus an object noun. I have noticed in implementing this
convention that English is wonderfully abundant in nouns and
woefully short of verbs. The Brits we inherited the language from
must have been too object oriented. We Americans are doing our best
to proceduralize it. (Isn't that the wave of the future?)

Garry Wiegand --- Ithaca Software, Alameda, California
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